Sudden Ranch Fire
The Sudden Ranch Fire burned 7,782 acres in Santa Barbara County, California, in 2002. It was discovered on June 15, 2002.
- Size
- 7,782 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2002
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,859 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.559, -120.527.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,782 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,859 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,503 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2002, 1:20 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Los Padres National Forest
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Unit
- CAAFV
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3455012052820020615
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2002_CA-AFV-0364
- Perimeter map method
- GPS Ground
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 |
| 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.