La Porte Fire
The La Porte Fire was reported on October 9, 2017 in Butte County, California and burned 3,000 acres. It is 5 percent contained.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Contained
- 5%
- Discovered
- October 9, 2017
- Personnel
- 71
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 39.391, -121.408.
The incident
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Containment
- 5%
- Discovered
- October 9, 2017 at 12:45 AM PDT
- Cause
- Not reported
- Location
- Bangor
- County
- Butte County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Bangor
- Protecting agency
- CDF
- Personnel assigned
- 71
- Incident management
- Type 1 Team
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-CABTU-015954
- IRWIN identifier
- 8B597411-5F41-4173-A617-B0C0B8D1AC82
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Bangor, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Bangor, CAUnder a mile southeast of the fire’s origin
- Loma Rica, CA5 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Palermo, CA8 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Oroville East, CA9 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- South Oroville, CA9 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Challenge-Brownsville, CA9 miles northeast 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 10, 2017 at 5:37 AM PDT. Identifier 2017-CABTU-015954.