Wildfires of 2010

Robinson Fire

2010Merced County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Robinson Fire burned 1,600 acres in Merced County, California, in 2010. It was discovered on June 11, 2010. MTBS dates its ignition to June 12, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,600 acres
Discovered
June 11, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,527 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.503, -120.410.

The record

Reported final size
1,600 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,527 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,600 acres
Discovered
June 11, 2010, 8:04 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
June 12, 2010
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
California
County
Merced County
Reporting unit
Merced-Mariposa Unit
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAMMU
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3746512035820100612
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2010-CACDFMMU008291

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

FireAcresStartCause
Bull Fire16,442Jul 26, 2010Human
Crown Fire13,918Jul 29, 2010Human
Canyon Fire9,820Sep 12, 2010Human
Mcdonald Fire9,408Jul 26, 2010Natural
Sheep Complex9,020Jul 16, 2010Natural
Aliso Fire3,225Jul 13, 2010Human
Cotton Fire2,044May 15, 2010Human
Indian Fire1,822Jul 18, 2010Natural
Slope Fire1,711Jul 25, 2010Natural
West Fire1,658Jul 27, 2010
Unnamed Fire1,500Oct 11, 2010
Constantia Fire1,369Jul 24, 2010Natural

Every fire of 2010 California fire history

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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.