Chilcoot Fire
The Chilcoot Fire was reported on August 6, 2017 in Plumas County, California and burned 1,021 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 1,021 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 6, 2017
- Personnel
- 21
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 39.780, -120.143.
The incident
- Size
- 1,021 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 6, 2017 at 3:32 PM PDT
- Cause
- Not reported
- Location
- CHILCOOT, CA
- County
- Plumas County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Chilcoot
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Personnel assigned
- 21
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $800,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-CATNF-000992
- IRWIN identifier
- 16C02EBC-C9C1-4895-8625-A901E0D14108
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Loyalton, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Loyalton, CA9 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Cold Springs, NV11 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Portola, CA17 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Lemmon Valley, NV19 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Verdi, NV20 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Golden Valley, NV20 miles southeast 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 August 8, 2017 at 5:08 PM PDT. Identifier 2017-CATNF-000992.