Wildfires of 1999

Tehama-Glenn Complex (Dehaven Gulch) Fire

1999CaliforniaWildfire

The Tehama-Glenn Complex (Dehaven Gulch) Fire burned 17,000 acres in California, in 1999. It was discovered on August 23, 1999, and contained on August 31, 1999. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
17,000 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1999
Contained
August 31, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 17,240 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.301, -121.832.

The record

Reported final size
17,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
17,240 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
16,884 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1999, 10:52 a.m. local time
Contained
August 31, 1999, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
California
Reporting unit
Lassen National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CATGU
Part of
Tehama Glenn Ranger Unit Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4028412194519990823
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-345429
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
Big Bar Complex (Onion) Fire16,732Aug 23, 1999
Spanish Fire14,537Jul 18, 1999Human
Bohemotash Fire14,090Aug 23, 1999Natural

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.