Pilot Fire
The Pilot Fire burned 4,028 acres in California, in 1999. It was discovered on August 23, 1999, and contained on August 30, 1999. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 4,028 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 1999
- Contained
- August 30, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,836 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.823, -120.017.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,028 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,836 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,995 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 1999, 2:37 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Stanislaus National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CASTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3784511998419990823
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-340214
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.