Wildfires of 1998

Unnamed Fire

1998CaliforniaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 8,950 acres in California, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to June 11, 1998.

Size
8,950 acres
Ignition
June 11, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,950 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.814, -120.797.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,950 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,345 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 11, 1998
State
California
Agency
STA
Unit
CACRB
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3581412079719980611
MTBS assessment
Initial

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in California in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Edna Fire28,164Oct 5, 1998Human
Piru Fire12,613Oct 18, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire11,141
Refuge Fire9,700Aug 4, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire7,094Sep 2, 1998
Breck Fire7,000Jul 8, 1998Human
Middle Fire6,600Aug 29, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire6,284
Juniper Fire6,000Aug 31, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire5,341Aug 6, 1998
Weirick Fire5,000Aug 31, 1998Natural
Mercy Fire4,800Jul 10, 1998Human

Every fire of 1998 California fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.