Post Fire
The Post Fire burned 1,312 acres in Kern County, California, in 2010. It was discovered on August 24, 2010, and contained on August 28, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,312 acres
- Discovered
- August 24, 2010
- Contained
- August 28, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,453 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.848, -118.874.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,312 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,453 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,311 acres
- Discovered
- August 24, 2010, 12:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 28, 2010
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- California
- County
- Kern County
- Reporting unit
- Los Padres National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAKRN
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3483911890520100824
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1489288
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 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Fire | 16,442 | Jul 26, 2010 | Human |
| Crown Fire | 13,918 | Jul 29, 2010 | Human |
| Canyon Fire | 9,820 | Sep 12, 2010 | Human |
| Mcdonald Fire | 9,408 | Jul 26, 2010 | Natural |
| Sheep Complex | 9,020 | Jul 16, 2010 | Natural |
| Aliso Fire | 3,225 | Jul 13, 2010 | Human |
| Cotton Fire | 2,044 | May 15, 2010 | Human |
| Indian Fire | 1,822 | Jul 18, 2010 | Natural |
| Slope Fire | 1,711 | Jul 25, 2010 | Natural |
| West Fire | 1,658 | Jul 27, 2010 | |
| Robinson Fire | 1,600 | Jun 11, 2010 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Oct 11, 2010 |
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.