The archived outline of the Hill Fire spans about 5.7 km from west to east and 5.6 km from south to north. CAL FIRE places the incident at Hill Canyon Rd and Santa Rosa Rd, Santa Rosa Valley. The mapped boundary provides a second way to locate the event: it shows the extent around that reference location.
| Start listed by CAL FIRE | 8 November 2018 |
|---|---|
| County listing | Ventura |
| Reported area in hectares | 1,773 ha (converted from acres) |
| Extent of the mapped outline | 5.7 × 5.6 km (west–east × south–north) |
| Containment entry in the archive | 4 January 2019 |
| Perimeter collection method as recorded | Mixed Collection Methods |
What the perimeter shows
The two spans differ by only 0.1 km. That does not make this a circular burn: the dimensions measure the outermost coordinates, leaving indentations and gaps invisible. Use the polygon itself, rather than its enclosing rectangle, to check whether a location intersects the footprint.
Two estimates of area
The incident report gives 4,381 acres; the interagency feature stores 4,310.1 GIS acres. The mapped value is 70.9 acres below the reported value (1.62%). This compares two published measurements, not two observation times. The difference cannot be read as fire growth.
CAL FIRE also records structures damaged: 2; structures destroyed: 4. Those counts come from the incident record. A building inside the perimeter cannot be assigned a damage category from this map alone.
A similar-sized fire for comparison
The Meadow Fire of 2016 is the closest match by reported acreage in this 100-case collection (4,347 acres). Its mapped spans are 6.5 by 5.5 km, west–east then south–north, versus 5.7 by 5.6 km here. The broad proportions are comparable. That does not establish that fuel, wind or suppression tactics were similar.
Sources and map method
- Hill Fire · CAL FIRE incident record
- NIFC interagency history · source perimeter (GeoJSON)
- Meadow Fire · comparison incident
- Comparison perimeter · interagency record
Spans use the geographic extremes of a generalized boundary, converted to kilometres at its middle latitude. They are approximate map dimensions, not distances travelled by flames. The GIS acreage is the source attribute, not an area recalculated from the simplified outline.