Soda Fire
The Soda Fire was reported on June 4, 2016 in San Luis Obispo County, California and burned 2,003 acres. It was declared out on June 15, 2016.
- Size
- 2,003 acres
- Contained
- 90%
- Discovered
- June 4, 2016
- Personnel
- 32
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 35.040, -119.601.
The incident
- Size
- 2,003 acres
- Containment
- 90%
- Discovered
- June 4, 2016 at 5:41 PM PDT
- Contained
- June 4, 2016 at 11:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- June 5, 2016 at 5:30 PM PDT
- Declared out
- June 15, 2016 at 6:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- San Luis Obispo County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Maricopa
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 32
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $500,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-CACND-001171
- IRWIN identifier
- B3C537F6-6EEA-4107-9F29-94FDC645710A
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for New Cuyama, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- New Cuyama, CA8 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Taft Heights, CA10 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- South Taft, CA11 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Taft, CA11 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Ford City, CA11 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Maricopa, CA11 miles east 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 October 4, 2016 at 9:30 AM PDT. Identifier 2016-CACND-001171.