High Fire
The High Fire burned 971 acres in Kern County, California, in 2005. It was discovered on July 9, 2005, and contained on July 10, 2005.
- Size
- 971 acres
- Discovered
- July 9, 2005
- Contained
- July 10, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,029 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.094, -118.390.
The record
- Reported final size
- 971 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,029 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 942 acres
- Discovered
- July 9, 2005, 1:55 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 10, 2005, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Kern County
- Reporting unit
- Kern County Fire Department
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAKRN
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3509311838420050709
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2005_CA-KRN-018737
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
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.