Wildfires of 2006

Broder Wfu Fire

2006Tulare County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Broder Wfu Fire burned 2,270 acres in Tulare County, California, in 2006. It was discovered on July 27, 2006, and contained on September 29, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to July 26, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,270 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006
Contained
September 29, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,481 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.167, -118.169.

The record

Reported final size
2,270 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,481 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,492 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006, 1:00 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
July 26, 2006
Contained
September 29, 2006, 1:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
California
County
Tulare County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Sequoia National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CASQF
Part of
Broder/Beck Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3614511817320060726
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1447176
Note on the perimeter
Broder and Beck WFU fires became Broder/Beck WFU. Used Broder Local Number.

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 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Day Fire162,702Sep 4, 2006Human
Pigeon Fire66,113Jul 24, 2006Natural
Millard Fire61,700Jul 9, 2006Natural
Esperanza Fire40,200Oct 26, 2006Human
Pigeon Fire35,094
Canyon Fire34,271Jul 9, 2006Human
Shekell Fire30,000Dec 3, 2006Human
Olive Fire25,000Jul 21, 2006Human
Millard Fire24,219
Horse Fire16,677Jul 23, 2006Human
Hunter Fire16,296Jul 24, 2006Natural
Orleans Complex15,710Jul 24, 2006Natural

Every fire of 2006 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.