School Fire
The School Fire burned 4,000 acres in Ventura County, California, in 2005. It was discovered on November 18, 2005.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- November 18, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,089 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.286, -119.280.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,089 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,892 acres
- Discovered
- November 18, 2005, 7:23 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Ventura County
- Reporting unit
- California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
- Agency
- C&L
- Unit
- CAVNC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3430711926420051118
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2005CACDFVNC010185
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.