Black Fire
The Black Fire burned 1,510 acres in Lassen County, California, in 2002. It was discovered on July 12, 2002, and contained on July 16, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,510 acres
- Discovered
- July 12, 2002
- Contained
- July 16, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,700 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.618, -120.547.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,510 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,700 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,512 acres
- Discovered
- July 12, 2002, 6:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 16, 2002, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- California
- County
- Lassen County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Northern California District
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CANOD
- Part of
- Horse Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4061112052020020712
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-111631
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mcnally Fire | 150,696 | Jul 21, 2002 | Human |
| Pines Fire | 61,690 | Jul 29, 2002 | Human |
| Williams Fire | 37,240 | Sep 22, 2002 | Human |
| Copper Fire | 23,407 | Jun 5, 2002 | Human |
| Cannon Fire | 23,020 | Jun 15, 2002 | Human |
| Wolf Fire | 21,645 | Jun 1, 2002 | Human |
| Curve Fire | 20,857 | Sep 1, 2002 | Human |
| Slinkard Fire | 8,600 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Sudden Ranch Fire | 7,782 | Jun 15, 2002 | |
| Bluecut Fire | 6,864 | Jun 16, 2002 | Human |
| Louisiana Fire | 6,559 | Jun 26, 2002 | Human |
| Inyo Complex (Fuller) Fire | 6,400 | Jul 11, 2002 | Natural |
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.