Elliot Fire
The Elliot Fire was reported on August 15, 2023 in Siskiyou County, California and burned 10,300 acres. It was declared out on December 11, 2023.
- Size
- 10,300 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 15, 2023
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
Perimeter mapped March 18, 2024 at 2:17 PM PDT, 13,875 acres (ir image interpretation). Point of origin 41.604, -123.517.
The incident
- Size
- 10,300 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 15, 2023 at 8:08 AM PDT
- Contained
- October 23, 2023 at 10:27 AM PDT
- Controlled
- November 7, 2023 at 9:00 AM PST
- Declared out
- December 11, 2023 at 8:00 AM PST
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- Elliot Creek
- County
- Siskiyou County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Happy Camp
- Protecting agency
- USFS
- Jurisdiction
- USFS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $10,000,000
- Part of
- Happy Camp Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2023-CAKNF-006944
- IRWIN identifier
- A96DE9BC-0095-43DC-B3E4-81489E63841F
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from August 18, 2023 (0 acres) to September 28, 2023 (13,875 acres). The largest one-day growth was 2,966 acres, mapped August 23, 2023.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| August 18, 2023 | 0 | |
| August 20, 2023 | 638 | +638 |
| August 23, 2023 | 3,604 | +2,966 |
| August 24, 2023 | 4,307 | +703 |
| August 25, 2023 | 4,463 | +156 |
| August 26, 2023 | 5,333 | +870 |
| August 27, 2023 | 8,279 | +2,946 |
| August 28, 2023 | 9,486 | +1,207 |
| August 29, 2023 | 9,486 | 0 |
| August 30, 2023 | 10,529 | +1,043 |
| August 31, 2023 | 11,459 | +930 |
| September 1, 2023 | 11,723 | +264 |
| September 4, 2023 | 11,723 | 0 |
| September 5, 2023 | 12,130 | +407 |
| September 6, 2023 | 12,130 | 0 |
| September 7, 2023 | 12,159 | +29 |
| September 8, 2023 | 12,273 | +114 |
| September 9, 2023 | 12,326 | +53 |
| September 10, 2023 | 12,546 | +220 |
| September 12, 2023 | 12,736 | +190 |
| September 13, 2023 | 12,835 | +99 |
| September 14, 2023 | 13,041 | +206 |
| September 15, 2023 | 13,227 | +186 |
| September 16, 2023 | 13,394 | +167 |
| September 17, 2023 | 13,592 | +198 |
| September 18, 2023 | 13,622 | +30 |
| September 20, 2023 | 13,649 | +27 |
| September 21, 2023 | 13,722 | +73 |
| September 22, 2023 | 13,736 | +14 |
| September 28, 2023 | 13,875 | +139 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Happy Camp, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Happy Camp, CA15 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Bertsch-Oceanview, CA35 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Crescent City, CA37 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Fort Dick, CA37 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Cave Junction, OR39 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Williams, OR44 miles north 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 December 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM PST. Identifier 2023-CAKNF-006944.