The archived outline of the Creek Fire spans about 11.5 km from west to east and 10.1 km from south to north. CAL FIRE places the incident at Kagel Canyon Rd, north of Lake View terrace. The mapped boundary provides a second way to locate the event: it shows the extent around that reference location.
| Start listed by CAL FIRE | 5 December 2017 |
|---|---|
| County listing | Los Angeles |
| Reported area in hectares | 6,321 ha (converted from acres) |
| Extent of the mapped outline | 11.5 × 10.1 km (west–east × south–north) |
| Containment entry in the archive | 6 August 2018 |
What the perimeter shows
The two spans differ by only 1.4 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 15,619 acres; the interagency feature stores 15,619.1 GIS acres. The mapped value is 0.1 acres above the reported value (0.00%). This compares two published measurements, not two observation times. The difference cannot be read as fire growth.
CAL FIRE also records structures damaged: 81; structures destroyed: 123. 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 Schaeffer Fire of 2017 is the closest match by reported acreage in this 100-case collection (16,031 acres). Its mapped spans are 12.8 by 13.1 km, west–east then south–north, versus 11.5 by 10.1 km here. The longer axes run in different directions. Matching on acreage would miss that contrast.
Sources and map method
- Creek Fire · CAL FIRE incident record
- NIFC interagency history · source perimeter (GeoJSON)
- Schaeffer 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.