Lime Fire
The Lime Fire was reported on September 5, 2019 in Siskiyou County, California and burned 1,872 acres. It was declared out on December 3, 2019.
- Size
- 1,872 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2019
- Personnel
- 42
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 41.866, -122.670.
The incident
- Size
- 1,872 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2019 at 11:19 AM PDT
- Contained
- September 25, 2019 at 8:00 AM PDT
- Declared out
- December 3, 2019 at 12:00 PM PST
- Cause
- Unknown
- Location
- West of I-5, East of Klamath River, in Lime Gulch
- County
- Siskiyou County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Hornbrook
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 42
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $10,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-CAKNF-007074
- IRWIN identifier
- 75B69E99-7108-4156-8ECE-64DA2CD36C49
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Yreka, CA covers the area today.
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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 February 16, 2020 at 1:30 PM PST. Identifier 2019-CAKNF-007074.