2003 Southern California Fire Assessments: Tables

This webpage is designed to provide tabular information derived from fire overlays of the Southern California Fires of 2003.

Disclaimer

FRAP/RSL make no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of data or maps. In particular, data relating to recently burned areas reflect generalized perimeters and represent coarse, preliminary assessments of the fire perimeters, and fire sizes, and may change or not correspond to other officially reported acreage. Areas close to, or inside of the perimeters represented here may or may not have actually burned. The user will not seek to hold either the Federal or State Government, nor the US Forest Service or CDF liable under any circumstances for any damages with respect to any claim by the user or any third party on account of or arising from the use of data or maps.

By Individual Fire (area burned in Acres)

• Threat: Wildland fire threat.
• Surface Fuels: Surface fuels in the Fire Behavior Prediction System (FBPS). Along with slope and expected fire frequency, fuels are a major component in determining fire threat. For state- and county-wide data on surface fuels, and metadata, see http://frap.cdf.ca.gov/data/frapgisdata/select.asp
• Fire Threat to Communities: Pre-fire risk to communities defined by FRAP as having 1 house per 20 acres or greater density and within 2400 meters of High, Very High or Extreme threat as determined from fuel and fire occurrence history.
• Owner: Major land ownership classes.
• Mortality Zone: Area infested by the Bark Beetle as determined by the USDA Forest Service aerial survey of September, 2003.
• Vegetation Type (Dominant): CALVEG vegetation types.

All Burned Areas (Acres)

• Threat by WHR13: Fire threat for major groupings of the California Wildlife Habitat Relationships System (CWHR) as defined by FRAP (all burned acres).
• WHR13 by Owner: CWHR grouping by major land ownership classes (all burned areas).
• Erosion Potential (Post Fire) by Owner: Post fire erosion potential rankings by major land ownership classes (all burned areas).
• Mortality Zone: Area burned or not burned within the zone infested by the Bark Beetle as determined by the USDA Forest Service aerial survey of September, 2003.
• Vegetation Type (Dominant): CALVEG vegetation types (all burned area).

For more information, please contact:

Dave Sapsis
Wildland Fire Scientist
CDF Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP)
PO Box 944246
Sacramento, CA 94244-2460
916.445.5369
dave.sapsis@fire.ca.gov