Wildfires of 1999

Jellys 2 Fire

1999Tehama County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Jellys 2 Fire burned 780 acres in Tehama County, California, in 1999. It was discovered on August 23, 1999, and contained on August 23, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
780 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1999
Contained
August 23, 1999
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,702 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.295, -122.208.

The record

Reported final size
780 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,702 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,040 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1999, 5:55 a.m. local time
Contained
August 23, 1999, 7:30 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
California
County
Tehama County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Northern California District
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CATGU
Other fire reports inside the burned area
Tgu Jelly2
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4030412219519990823
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-562029
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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

FireAcresStartCause
Megram- Orleans Fire124,898Aug 23, 1999Natural
Willow Fire65,000Aug 28, 1999Human
Gun 2 Fire60,390Sep 28, 1999Human
Kirk Complex (Hare) Fire49,551Sep 13, 1999Natural
Sixteen Fire40,000Oct 16, 1999Human
Mhrd Complex (Bucks) Fire34,175Aug 23, 1999Natural
Pine Fire30,568Aug 22, 1999Natural
Jones Fire26,202Oct 16, 1999Human
Kirk Complex (Five) Fire23,761Sep 8, 1999Natural
Tehama-Glenn Complex (Dehaven Gulch) Fire17,000Aug 23, 1999Human
Big Bar Complex (Onion) Fire16,732Aug 23, 1999
Spanish Fire14,537Jul 18, 1999Human

Every fire of 1999 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. 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.