Bridge Fire
The Bridge Fire burned 7,200 acres in California, in 1999. It was discovered on August 29, 1999, and contained on September 7, 1999. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 7,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 1999
- Contained
- September 7, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,841 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.234, -117.850.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,841 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,234 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 1999, 2:22 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 7, 1999, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Angeles National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAANF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3423911786619990829
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-343236
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 |
| Big Bar Complex (Onion) Fire | 16,732 | Aug 23, 1999 | |
| Spanish Fire | 14,537 | Jul 18, 1999 | Human |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.