Lowden Fire
The Lowden Fire burned 2,000 acres in Trinity County, California, in 1999. It was discovered on July 2, 1999, and contained on July 31, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1999
- Contained
- July 31, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,849 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.688, -122.855.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,849 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,946 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1999, 1:38 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 31, 1999, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- California
- County
- Trinity County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Northern California District
- Agency
- CAL FIRE
- Unit
- CASHU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4069312281619990702
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-91299
- 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
| 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.