Wildfires of 2001

Mcphails Peak Vmp Prescribed Fire

2001CaliforniaPrescribed fire

The Mcphails Peak Vmp Prescribed Fire burned 1,322 acres in California, in 2001. MTBS dates its ignition to October 10, 2001.

Size
1,322 acres
Ignition
October 10, 2001

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,322 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.656, -121.365.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,322 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,418 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 10, 2001
State
California
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CABEU
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3665612136520011010
MTBS assessment
Extended

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

FireAcresStartCause
Observation Fire67,792Aug 9, 2001Natural
Blue Complex (Blue) Fire34,319Aug 9, 2001Natural
Trough Fire24,970Aug 8, 2001Human
Star Fire16,761Aug 25, 2001Human
Darby Fire14,280Sep 5, 2001Human
Creek Fire11,185Aug 18, 2001Human
Viejas Fire10,353Jan 3, 2001Human
Hoover Complex (Hoover) Fire9,300Jul 10, 2001Natural
Poe Fire8,333Sep 6, 2001
Happy Camp Complex (Swillup) Fire8,055Sep 15, 2001Natural
Leonard Fire6,800Aug 18, 2001Human
Stables Fire6,540Oct 12, 2001Human

Every fire of 2001 California fire history

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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.