Lockheed Fire
The Lockheed Fire burned 7,817 acres in Santa Cruz County, California, in 2009. It was discovered on August 12, 2009. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 7,817 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 7,783 acres, mapped by gps ground. Point of origin as reported, 37.148, -122.190.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,817 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,783 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2009, 7:16 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit
- Agency
- CAL FIRE
- Unit
- CACZU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-CACZU-009867
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2009-CACDFCZU007246
- Perimeter map method
- GPS Ground
- 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 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 |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,500 | Oct 4, 2009 | |
| Big Meadow Fire | 7,425 | Aug 26, 2009 | Human |
| 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. 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.