Wildfires of 1999

Unnamed Fire

1999CaliforniaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,080 acres in California, in 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to August 16, 1999.

Size
1,080 acres
Ignition
August 16, 1999

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,080 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.230, -122.020.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,080 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
844 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 16, 1999
State
California
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CATGU
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4023012202019990816
MTBS assessment
Initial
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
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. 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.