Wildfires of 2007

Fire

2007Orange County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Fire burned 2,036 acres in Orange County, California, in 2007. It was discovered on March 11, 2007, and contained on March 14, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
2,036 acres
Discovered
March 11, 2007
Contained
March 14, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,851 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.829, -117.713.

The record

Reported final size
2,036 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,851 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,618 acres
Discovered
March 11, 2007, 7:53 a.m. local time
Contained
March 14, 2007, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
California
County
Orange County
Land ownership at origin
County
Reporting unit
Orange County Fire Authority
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAORC
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3382811774720070311
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2007_CA-ORC-016557
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 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
Ammo Fire21,004Oct 23, 2007

Every fire of 2007 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.