Big Meadow Fire
The Big Meadow Fire burned 7,425 acres in California, in 2009. It was discovered on August 26, 2009, and contained on September 7, 2009. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 7,425 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2009
- Contained
- September 7, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,843 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.709, -119.750.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,425 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,843 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,553 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2009, 10:10 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 7, 2009, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- California
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Yosemite National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- CAYNP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-CAYNP-003660
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3773111975720090826
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-597133
- Perimeter map method
- Differential GPS
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 200912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Station Fire | 160,371 | Aug 26, 2009 | Human |
| La Brea Fire | 91,622 | Aug 8, 2009 | Human |
| Guiberson Fire | 17,463 | Sep 22, 2009 | Human |
| Corral Fire | 12,200 | Aug 13, 2009 | Human |
| Hat Creek Complex (Sugarloaf) Fire | 9,356 | Aug 1, 2009 | Natural |
| Jesusita Fire | 8,733 | May 5, 2009 | Human |
| Lockheed Fire | 7,817 | Aug 12, 2009 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,500 | Oct 4, 2009 | |
| Sheep Fire | 7,128 | Oct 3, 2009 | Human |
| Shu Lightning Complex (Chalk) Fire | 6,923 | Aug 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Gloria Fire | 6,437 | Aug 27, 2009 | Human |
| Knight Fire | 6,130 | Jul 26, 2009 | 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.