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BIG DALTON

Burned 67,702 acres (274 km², 105.8 mi²) in CA during 1953.

IRWIN unkn-4000-313… USFS CA fire history 1953 fires
Acres burned
67,702
274 km²
Year
1953
FIRE_YEAR field
State
CA
POOState region
Reporting agency
USFS
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 1 ring. Centroid 34.977°, -120.185°.

NW: 35.090°N, 120.282°W SE: 34.864°N, 120.087°W

About this perimeter

Sourced from the NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History ArcGIS service. Polygon geometry has been simplified to ≤0.001° tolerance for storage; original full-fidelity perimeters are at fire.nifc.gov. We track all 75,044 documented historical perimeters; this detail view renders the top 1,000 by acreage. The shape above is rendered fully server-side with no JavaScript or external mapping library — it preserves the polygon's shape but not its precise geographic placement on a basemap.