Wildfires of 2002

Sage/Aliso Prescribed Fire

2002CaliforniaPrescribed fire

The Sage/Aliso Prescribed Fire burned 1,737 acres in California, in 2002. MTBS dates its ignition to February 26, 2002.

Size
1,737 acres
Ignition
February 26, 2002

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,737 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.558, -119.798.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,737 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,261 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
February 26, 2002
State
California
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CASBC
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3455811979820020226
MTBS assessment
Extended
Note on the perimeter
RX-SOUTH-020-SBC - High Consumption

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

FireAcresStartCause
Mcnally Fire150,696Jul 21, 2002Human
Pines Fire61,690Jul 29, 2002Human
Williams Fire37,240Sep 22, 2002Human
Copper Fire23,407Jun 5, 2002Human
Cannon Fire23,020Jun 15, 2002Human
Wolf Fire21,645Jun 1, 2002Human
Curve Fire20,857Sep 1, 2002Human
Slinkard Fire8,600Jul 13, 2002Natural
Sudden Ranch Fire7,782Jun 15, 2002
Bluecut Fire6,864Jun 16, 2002Human
Louisiana Fire6,559Jun 26, 2002Human
Inyo Complex (Fuller) Fire6,400Jul 11, 2002Natural

Every fire of 2002 California fire history

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. 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.