Wildfires of 2005

Manton Fire

2005Tehama County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Manton Fire burned 1,830 acres in Tehama County, California, in 2005. It was discovered on August 26, 2005, and contained on September 2, 2005. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,830 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2005
Contained
September 2, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,293 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.419, -121.883.

The record

Reported final size
1,830 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,293 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,822 acres
Discovered
August 26, 2005, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
September 2, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
California
County
Tehama County
Reporting unit
Tehama-Glenn Unit
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CATGU
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4044412185520050826
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2005_CA-TGU-005384
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 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Hackberry Complex63,436Jun 22, 2005Natural
Unnamed Fire39,062Aug 25, 2005
Topanga Fire24,970Sep 28, 2005Human
China Lake Fire10,350Jul 18, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire9,039Aug 19, 2005
Comb Complex8,675Jul 22, 2005Natural
Hackberry Fire7,158
Tesla Fire6,744Jul 19, 2005Human
Woodhouse Fire6,644Oct 5, 2005Human
Five Fire5,514Jun 4, 2005Human
Blaisdell Fire5,493Aug 26, 2005Human
Border 50 Fire4,100Oct 5, 2005Human

Every fire of 2005 California fire history

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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.