Bell Fire
The Bell Fire burned 1,200 acres in California, in 2001. It was discovered on December 8, 2001, and contained on December 9, 2001.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- December 8, 2001
- Contained
- December 9, 2001
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,693 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.617, -116.617.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,693 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,409 acres
- Discovered
- December 8, 2001, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- December 9, 2001, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- San Diego National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- CAL FIRE
- Unit
- CAMVU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3260811660120011208
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2001CASCR1134
- 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 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Observation Fire | 67,792 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
| Blue Complex (Blue) Fire | 34,319 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
| Trough Fire | 24,970 | Aug 8, 2001 | Human |
| Star Fire | 16,761 | Aug 25, 2001 | Human |
| Darby Fire | 14,280 | Sep 5, 2001 | Human |
| Creek Fire | 11,185 | Aug 18, 2001 | Human |
| Viejas Fire | 10,353 | Jan 3, 2001 | Human |
| Hoover Complex (Hoover) Fire | 9,300 | Jul 10, 2001 | Natural |
| Poe Fire | 8,333 | Sep 6, 2001 | |
| Happy Camp Complex (Swillup) Fire | 8,055 | Sep 15, 2001 | Natural |
| Leonard Fire | 6,800 | Aug 18, 2001 | Human |
| Stables Fire | 6,540 | Oct 12, 2001 | 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.