Salt Fire
The Salt Fire was reported on June 30, 2021 in Shasta County, California and burned 12,660 acres. It was declared out on October 29, 2021. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 12,660 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 30, 2021
- Personnel
- 80
Map
Perimeter mapped June 30, 2021 at 6:31 PM PDT, 12,590 acres (remote sensing derived). Point of origin 40.863, -122.355.
The incident
- Size
- 12,660 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 30, 2021 at 1:31 PM PDT
- Contained
- July 21, 2021 at 5:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- October 26, 2021 at 4:55 PM PDT
- Declared out
- October 29, 2021 at 9:00 AM PDT
- Cause
- Human, Equipment, Motor Vehicle
- Location
- Shasta-trinity NF, Shasta Lake District, Lakehead, CA
- County
- Shasta County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Lakehead, CA
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 80
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $19,200,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2021-CASHF-000982
- IRWIN identifier
- 403B847B-B915-478A-87F0-1D8013C54B18
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Mountain Gate, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Mountain Gate, CA10 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Central Valley (historical), CA13 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Shasta Lake, CA13 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Bella Vista, CA17 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Redding, CA19 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Shasta, CA20 miles south 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 January 14, 2022 at 10:14 AM PST. Identifier 2021-CASHF-000982.