Big Bar Complex (Onion) Fire
The Big Bar Complex (Onion) Fire burned 16,732 acres in California, in 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to August 23, 1999.
- Size
- 16,732 acres
- Ignition
- August 23, 1999
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,732 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.883, -123.388.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,732 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 15,961 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 23, 1999
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CASHF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4088312338819990823
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Megram- Orleans Fire | 124,898 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
| Willow Fire | 65,000 | Aug 28, 1999 | Human |
| Gun 2 Fire | 60,390 | Sep 28, 1999 | Human |
| Kirk Complex (Hare) Fire | 49,551 | Sep 13, 1999 | Natural |
| Sixteen Fire | 40,000 | Oct 16, 1999 | Human |
| Mhrd Complex (Bucks) Fire | 34,175 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
| Pine Fire | 30,568 | Aug 22, 1999 | Natural |
| Jones Fire | 26,202 | Oct 16, 1999 | Human |
| Kirk Complex (Five) Fire | 23,761 | Sep 8, 1999 | Natural |
| Tehama-Glenn Complex (Dehaven Gulch) Fire | 17,000 | Aug 23, 1999 | Human |
| Spanish Fire | 14,537 | Jul 18, 1999 | Human |
| Bohemotash Fire | 14,090 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
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.