Red Bank Fire
The Red Bank Fire was reported on September 5, 2019 in Tehama County, California and burned 8,838 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as natural. Incident teams reported 2 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 8,838 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2019
- Personnel
- 659
- Structures destroyed
- 2
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 40.120, -122.640.
The incident
- Size
- 8,838 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2019 at 12:19 PM PDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Red Bank Area, Balis Bell Rd., 25 mi. west of Red Bluff
- County
- Tehama County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Red Bluff
- Personnel assigned
- 659
- Incident management
- Type 1 Team
- Primary fuel
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $21,400,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-CATGU-009386
- IRWIN identifier
- CC70F3A6-0402-4CAC-9054-8B160525E251
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 15, from September 6, 2019 to September 13, 2019. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 2 (1 residence, 1 other)
- Structures damaged
- 2
- Most structures threatened at once
- 25
- Most personnel assigned
- 1,025 on September 10, 2019
- Most aircraft assigned
- 18
- People evacuated, at the most
- 50
- Cost reported by the teams
- $21.4 million, in 2019 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,498 acres, on September 7, 2019.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 6, 2019 | 7,340 | |
| Sep 7, 2019 | 8,838 | +1,498 |
| Sep 8, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
| Sep 9, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
| Sep 10, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
| Sep 11, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
| Sep 12, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
| Sep 13, 2019 | 8,838 | 0 |
From Wikipedia
The Red Bank Fire was one of a series of wildfires in Tehama County, California, 25 miles west of Red Bluff. The Red Bank area fire was ignited from a series lightning strikes and erupted out of control on Thursday, September 5, 2019. The blaze, along with the South and Henthrone fires, is burning in a remote location, 30 miles south of Redding, California. The fire was contained on September 13 at 8,838 acres (36 km2). Two structures were destroyed.
Text from Wikipedia, “Red Bank Fire”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Rancho Tehama Reserve, CA15 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Red Bluff, CA22 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Gerber, CA26 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Cottonwood, CA26 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Corning, CA28 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Anderson, CA29 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
California wildfires today Wildfires of 2019 All current fires
Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated September 13, 2019 at 5:47 PM PDT. Identifier 2019-CATGU-009386.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.