Pony Fire
The Pony Fire was reported on June 7, 2016 in Siskiyou County, California and burned 2,860 acres. It was declared out on December 15, 2016. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,860 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 7, 2016
- Personnel
- 17
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 41.623, -123.558.
The incident
- Size
- 2,860 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 7, 2016 at 11:32 AM PDT
- Contained
- October 6, 2016 at 2:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- December 15, 2016 at 12:00 PM PST
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Siskiyou County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Happy Camp
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 17
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Heavy Logging Slash
- Estimated cost to date
- $20,500,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-CAKNF-004500
- IRWIN identifier
- D9DFCB7A-1C72-4270-90EC-58D229388B88
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Happy Camp, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Happy Camp, CA15 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Bertsch-Oceanview, CA32 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Crescent City, CA34 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Fort Dick, CA35 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Cave Junction, OR38 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Williams, OR44 miles north of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated December 15, 2016 at 12:02 PM PST. Identifier 2016-CAKNF-004500.