Town Fire
The Town Fire burned 1,140 acres in California, in 2000. It was discovered on March 31, 2000, and contained on April 1, 2000. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,140 acres
- Discovered
- March 31, 2000
- Contained
- April 1, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,481 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.625, -122.686.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,140 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,481 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,110 acres
- Discovered
- March 31, 2000, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 1, 2000, 7:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Mendocino National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAMNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3960712265220000331
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-358687
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.