Wildfires of 2007

Ammo Fire

2007San Diego County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Ammo Fire burned 21,004 acres in San Diego County, California, in 2007. It was discovered on October 23, 2007, and contained on November 1, 2007.

Size
21,004 acres
Discovered
October 23, 2007
Contained
November 1, 2007
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 19,198 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.380, -117.509.

The record

Reported final size
21,004 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
19,198 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
21,494 acres
Discovered
October 23, 2007, 9:20 a.m. local time
Contained
November 1, 2007
Cause
Undetermined
State
California
County
San Diego County
Land ownership at origin
Other Federal
Reporting unit
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAMCP
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3334611747220071023
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2007_CA-MCP-001111

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 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Zaca Fire240,207Jul 4, 2007Human
Witch Fire197,990Oct 21, 2007Human
Harris Fire90,440Oct 21, 2007Human
Moonlight Fire64,995Sep 3, 2007Human
Poomacha Fire49,390Oct 23, 2007Human
Lick Fire47,760Sep 3, 2007Human
Ranch Fire45,300Oct 20, 2007Human
Buckweed Fire38,356Oct 21, 2007Human
Santiago Fire28,476Oct 21, 2007Human
Inyo Complex (Oak) Fire28,426Jul 6, 2007
Antelope Complex (Wheeler) Fire22,906Jul 5, 2007Natural
Butler 2 Fire14,039Sep 14, 2007Human

Every fire of 2007 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.