Wildfires of 1999

Juniper Complex (Fire #3) Fire

1999CaliforniaWildfire

The Juniper Complex (Fire #3) Fire burned 14,000 acres in California, in 1999. It was discovered on May 27, 1999, and contained on June 3, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
14,000 acres
Discovered
May 27, 1999
Contained
June 3, 1999
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 13,471 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.002, -116.296.

The record

Reported final size
14,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
13,471 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
12,113 acres
Discovered
May 27, 1999, 12:30 p.m. local time
Contained
June 3, 1999, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
California
Land ownership at origin
National Park Service
Reporting unit
Joshua Tree National Monument
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
CAJTP
Part of
Juniper Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1999-CAJTP-000007
MTBS fire identifier
CA3401011623119990527
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-205254
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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.