Verdale Fire
The Verdale Fire burned 8,650 acres in Los Angeles County, California, in 2003. It was discovered on October 24, 2003, and contained on October 29, 2003.
- Size
- 8,650 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 2003
- Contained
- October 29, 2003
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,480 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.433, -118.676.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,650 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,480 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,474 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 2003, 1:07 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 29, 2003, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Los Angeles County Fire Department
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CALAC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3442611871620031024
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2003_CA-LAC-03220027
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 |
| Piru Fire | 63,720 | Oct 23, 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 |
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.