California, USA Fire History from 1878 - 1899

This dataset represents a subset of the original USDA Forest Service map spanning 1878-2007.  This map depicts only fires from 1878-1899.  The original metadata for the entire dataset is below:

This dataset represents USDA Forest Service fire perimeters 10+ acres and California Dept of Forestry fire perimeters 300+ acres occurring from the year 1950 to 2007. The geographic extent of the fires includes the State of California, Region 5 Forests (some R5 Forests have boundaries falling outside CA) and the Toiyabe National Forest in Region 4. Some fires before 1950 are also included. Fires are compiled from both historic and recently mapped records. This layer contains records up to and including fires from 2007.