Wildfires of 2007

Slide Fire

2007San Bernardino County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Slide Fire burned 12,759 acres in San Bernardino County, California, in 2007. It was discovered on October 22, 2007, and contained on November 14, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
12,759 acres
Discovered
October 22, 2007
Contained
November 14, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 13,182 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.252, -117.050.

The record

Reported final size
12,759 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
13,182 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
12,769 acres
Discovered
October 22, 2007, 8:00 a.m. local time
Contained
November 14, 2007, 6:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
California
County
San Bernardino County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
San Bernardino National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CABDF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3423111709520071022
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1457794

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

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.