Wildfires of 2000

Bark Fire

2000CaliforniaWildfire

The Bark Fire burned 1,715 acres in California, in 2000. It was discovered on July 21, 2000, and contained on July 28, 2000. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,715 acres
Discovered
July 21, 2000
Contained
July 28, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,897 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.836, -122.900.

The record

Reported final size
1,715 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,897 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,720 acres
Discovered
July 21, 2000, 11:20 a.m. local time
Contained
July 28, 2000, 8:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
California
Land ownership at origin
State or Private
Reporting unit
Klamath National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAKNF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4186612288320000721
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-351249

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
Manter Fire75,000Jul 22, 2000Human
Storrie Fire55,261Aug 17, 2000Human
Pechanga Fire10,380Jul 29, 2000Human
Harris Fire9,700Sep 13, 2000
Hunter Fire8,600Aug 27, 2000Human
Weinstein Fire8,284Sep 29, 2000Human
Shell Fire6,762Jul 22, 2000Human
Happy Fire5,861Jul 22, 2000Human
Plaskett 2 Fire5,856Jul 22, 2000Human
Berryessa Fire5,731Jun 13, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire4,613Aug 11, 2000
Hidden Fire4,500Oct 21, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 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.