Curve Fire
The Curve Fire burned 20,857 acres in Los Angeles County, California, in 2002. It was discovered on September 1, 2002. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 20,857 acres
- Discovered
- September 1, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 20,551 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.268, -117.836.
The record
- Reported final size
- 20,857 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 20,551 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 20,871 acres
- Discovered
- September 1, 2002, 12:35 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Reporting unit
- Angeles National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAANF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3430611781520020901
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2002-CA-ANF-3238
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 |
| 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 |
| Gavilan Fire | 5,763 | Feb 10, 2002 | 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.