Wildfires of 1999

Pg&e #22 Fire

1999CaliforniaWildfire

The Pg&e #22 Fire burned 1,200 acres in California, in 1999. It was discovered on October 16, 1999. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
October 16, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,407 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.731, -122.824.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,407 acres
Discovered
October 16, 1999
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
California
Reporting unit
Sonoma-Lake Napa Unit
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CALNU
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
CDF_1999_53_2211_670

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. 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.