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Wildfire perimeter

BTU LIGHTNING COMPLEX

Burned 53,699 acres (217 km², 83.9 mi²) in CA during 2008.

IRWIN unkn-54000-86… CDF CA fire history 2008 fires
Acres burned
53,699
217 km²
Year
2008
FIRE_YEAR field
State
CA
POOState region
Reporting agency
CDF
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 45 rings. Centroid 39.906°, -121.447°.

NW: 40.080°N, 121.633°W SE: 39.733°N, 121.260°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.