Harvard Fire
The Harvard Fire burned 1,012 acres in Los Angeles County, California, in 2005. It was discovered on September 29, 2005.
- Size
- 1,012 acres
- Discovered
- September 29, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,025 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.202, -118.299.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,012 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,025 acres
- Discovered
- September 29, 2005, 4:23 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Los Angeles County
- Reporting unit
- California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3421511829520050929
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2005CACDFLAC004470
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hackberry Complex | 63,436 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 39,062 | Aug 25, 2005 | |
| Topanga Fire | 24,970 | Sep 28, 2005 | Human |
| China Lake Fire | 10,350 | Jul 18, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,039 | Aug 19, 2005 | |
| Comb Complex | 8,675 | Jul 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Hackberry Fire | 7,158 | ||
| Tesla Fire | 6,744 | Jul 19, 2005 | Human |
| Woodhouse Fire | 6,644 | Oct 5, 2005 | Human |
| Five Fire | 5,514 | Jun 4, 2005 | Human |
| Blaisdell Fire | 5,493 | Aug 26, 2005 | Human |
| Border 50 Fire | 4,100 | Oct 5, 2005 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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.