Table 2.
Comparison between the top 20 largest fires published by CALFIRE and the output of a GlobFire query for California, sorting by fire size. Burnt area unit is acres keeping the original data of table28.
| CALFIRE | GlobFire | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Area | Id | initialdate | finaldate | area |
| Biscuit Fire | 1491299 | 2002-07-15 | 2002-09-03 | 421784.41 | |
| RUSH | 315577 | 14533548 | 2012-08-12 | 2012-08-25 | 283879.60 |
| CEDAR | 273246 | 3281952 | 2003-10-22 | 2003-11-07 | 267823.67 |
| THOMAS | 281893 | 20855568 | 2017-12-01 | 2017-12-24 | 267722.77 |
| RIM | 257314 | 15706460 | 2013-08-15 | 2013-09-19 | 217156.73 |
| ZACA | 240207 | 8137811 | 2007-07-28 | 2007-08-27 | 206678.38 |
| WITCH | 197990 | 8600612 | 2007-10-15 | 2007-10-31 | 160780.34 |
| STATION | 160557 | 10864951 | 2009-08-26 | 2009-09-08 | 160718.39 |
| DAY FIRE | 162702 | 7119555 | 2006-09-04 | 2006-10-06 | 157459.58 |
| BASIN COMP. | 162818 | 9348287 | 2008-06-19 | 2008-08-02 | 154612.38 |
| 3281549 | 2003-10-20 | 2003-11-09 | 140728.31 | ||
| McNALLY | 150696 | 1491909 | 2002-07-19 | 2002-08-20 | 133653.93 |
| ROUGH | 151623 | 18030161 | 2015-08-04 | 2015-09-25 | 125895.76 |
| 19164360 | 2016-07-22 | 2016-09-17 | 112639.39 | ||
| HAPPY CAMP | 134056 | 16844497 | 2014-08-11 | 2014-09-21 | 100248.45 |
| 8600652 | 2007-10-15 | 2007-10-31 | 92929.19 | ||
| 3281505 | 2003-10-22 | 2003-11-05 | 92307.16 | ||
| 10864905 | 2009-08-09 | 2009-08-23 | 88610.98 | ||
| 17895908 | 2015-07-27 | 2015-08-17 | 85738.45 | ||