Wildfires of 2009

Mcphalis Vmp Prescribed Fire

2009CaliforniaPrescribed fire

The Mcphalis Vmp Prescribed Fire burned 2,162 acres in California, in 2009. MTBS dates its ignition to June 18, 2009.

Size
2,162 acres
Ignition
June 18, 2009

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,162 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.657, -121.357.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,162 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,835 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 18, 2009
State
California
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CABEU
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3665712135720090618
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Moderate Consumption

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

FireAcresStartCause
Station Fire160,371Aug 26, 2009Human
La Brea Fire91,622Aug 8, 2009Human
Guiberson Fire17,463Sep 22, 2009Human
Corral Fire12,200Aug 13, 2009Human
Hat Creek Complex (Sugarloaf) Fire9,356Aug 1, 2009Natural
Jesusita Fire8,733May 5, 2009Human
Lockheed Fire7,817Aug 12, 2009Human
Unnamed Fire7,500Oct 4, 2009
Big Meadow Fire7,425Aug 26, 2009Human
Sheep Fire7,128Oct 3, 2009Human
Shu Lightning Complex (Chalk) Fire6,923Aug 2, 2009Natural
Gloria Fire6,437Aug 27, 2009Human

Every fire of 2009 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. 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.