Wildfires of 2006

Maggie Fire

2006Tulare County, CaliforniaWildland fire use

The Maggie Fire burned 2,097 acres in Tulare County, California, in 2006. It was discovered on July 9, 2006, and contained on December 11, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,097 acres
Discovered
July 9, 2006
Contained
December 11, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,721 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.263, -118.615.

The record

Reported final size
2,097 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,721 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,656 acres
Discovered
July 9, 2006, 8:05 p.m. local time
Contained
December 11, 2006, 1:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
California
County
Tulare County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Sequoia National Forest
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
CAKNP
Incident type
Wildland fire use
Unique fire identifier
2006-CAKNP-000102
MTBS fire identifier
CA3632311850620060709
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1447153
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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

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.