Golden Fire
The Golden Fire burned 2,150 acres in Mono County, California, in 2000. It was discovered on August 1, 2000, and contained on August 18, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,150 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2000
- Contained
- August 18, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,733 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.544, -119.503.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,150 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,733 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,528 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2000, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 18, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- California
- County
- Mono County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Central California District
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CATOI
- Part of
- Golden Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3853611952920000801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-97443
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- statcause was 0, changed to Undetermined
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manter Fire | 75,000 | Jul 22, 2000 | Human |
| Storrie Fire | 55,261 | Aug 17, 2000 | Human |
| Pechanga Fire | 10,380 | Jul 29, 2000 | Human |
| Harris Fire | 9,700 | Sep 13, 2000 | |
| Hunter Fire | 8,600 | Aug 27, 2000 | Human |
| Weinstein Fire | 8,284 | Sep 29, 2000 | Human |
| Shell Fire | 6,762 | Jul 22, 2000 | Human |
| Happy Fire | 5,861 | Jul 22, 2000 | Human |
| Plaskett 2 Fire | 5,856 | Jul 22, 2000 | Human |
| Berryessa Fire | 5,731 | Jun 13, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,613 | Aug 11, 2000 | |
| Hidden Fire | 4,500 | Oct 21, 2000 | 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.