Gap Fire
The Gap Fire burned 9,443 acres in Santa Barbara County, California, in 2008. It was discovered on July 1, 2008, and contained on July 17, 2008. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 9,443 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2008
- Contained
- July 17, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,375 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.501, -119.861.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,443 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,375 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,545 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2008, 5:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 17, 2008, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Los Padres National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CALPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3448511986620080701
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1460827
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 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basin Complex | 162,818 | Jun 21, 2008 | Natural |
| Basin Complex (Indians) Fire | 81,378 | Jun 8, 2008 | Human |
| Siskiyou-Blue 2 Complex (Blue 2) Fire | 65,834 | Jun 20, 2008 | Natural |
| Btu Lightning Complex (Long Branch-Jack) Fire | 47,647 | Aug 13, 2008 | Natural |
| Panther Fire | 44,452 | Jul 23, 2008 | Natural |
| Bear Wallow Complex (Ukonom) Fire | 38,394 | Jun 21, 2008 | Natural |
| Piute Fire | 37,026 | Jun 28, 2008 | Human |
| Telegraph Fire | 34,091 | Jul 25, 2008 | Human |
| Yolla Bolly Complex (Iron) Fire | 32,903 | Jun 21, 2008 | Natural |
| Yellow Fire | 32,250 | Jun 22, 2008 | Natural |
| Iron and Alps Complexes (Eagle) Fire | 32,059 | Jun 21, 2008 | Natural |
| Yellow Fire | 31,933 |
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.