Piru Fire
The Piru Fire burned 63,720 acres in California, in 2003. It was discovered on October 23, 2003, and contained on October 31, 2003. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 63,720 acres
- Discovered
- October 23, 2003
- Contained
- October 31, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 63,923 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.487, -118.759.
The record
- Reported final size
- 63,720 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 63,923 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 63,726 acres
- Discovered
- October 23, 2003, 12:35 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 31, 2003, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Los Padres National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CALPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3448011886120031023
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-388185
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Fire | 280,059 | Oct 25, 2003 | Human |
| Simi Fire | 108,204 | Oct 25, 2003 | |
| Old Fire | 91,281 | Oct 25, 2003 | Human |
| Grand Prix Fire | 59,788 | Oct 21, 2003 | Human |
| Paradise Fire | 56,427 | Oct 26, 2003 | Human |
| Mine/Otay Fire | 47,921 | Oct 26, 2003 | Human |
| Annie Fire | 30,170 | Aug 25, 2003 | Natural |
| Coyote Fire | 19,576 | Jul 16, 2003 | Natural |
| Honeydew Fire | 13,846 | Sep 3, 2003 | Natural |
| Local Fire | 12,000 | Feb 23, 2003 | Human |
| Canoe Fire | 11,036 | Sep 3, 2003 | Natural |
| Padua Fire | 10,446 | Oct 25, 2003 | 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.