Moonlight Fire
The Moonlight Fire burned 64,995 acres in Plumas County, California, in 2007. It was discovered on September 3, 2007, and contained on September 25, 2007. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 64,995 acres
- Discovered
- September 3, 2007
- Contained
- September 25, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 65,726 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.213, -120.864.
The record
- Reported final size
- 64,995 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 65,726 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 64,960 acres
- Discovered
- September 3, 2007, 2:24 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 25, 2007, 6:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- California
- County
- Plumas County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Plumas National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAPNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4022012073620070903
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1452502
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zaca Fire | 240,207 | Jul 4, 2007 | Human |
| Witch Fire | 197,990 | Oct 21, 2007 | Human |
| Harris Fire | 90,440 | Oct 21, 2007 | Human |
| Poomacha Fire | 49,390 | Oct 23, 2007 | Human |
| Lick Fire | 47,760 | Sep 3, 2007 | Human |
| Ranch Fire | 45,300 | Oct 20, 2007 | Human |
| Buckweed Fire | 38,356 | Oct 21, 2007 | Human |
| Santiago Fire | 28,476 | Oct 21, 2007 | Human |
| Inyo Complex (Oak) Fire | 28,426 | Jul 6, 2007 | |
| Antelope Complex (Wheeler) Fire | 22,906 | Jul 5, 2007 | Natural |
| Ammo Fire | 21,004 | Oct 23, 2007 | |
| Butler 2 Fire | 14,039 | Sep 14, 2007 | 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.