Highway 58 Fire
The Highway 58 Fire burned 1,380 acres in San Luis Obispo County, California, in 2002. It was discovered on July 18, 2002, and contained on July 22, 2002. MTBS dates its ignition to July 19, 2002. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,380 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2002
- Contained
- July 22, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,394 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.433, -120.550.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,380 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,394 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,286 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2002, 4:23 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 19, 2002
- Contained
- July 22, 2002, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- California
- County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Central California District
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CASLU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3543312052720020719
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-565426
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.