The archived outline of the Eiler Fire spans about 12.8 km from west to east and 22.7 km from south to north. CAL FIRE places the incident at 12 miles southeast of Burney near Old Station. The mapped boundary provides a second way to locate the event: it shows the extent around that reference location.
| Start listed by CAL FIRE | 31 July 2014 |
|---|---|
| County listing | Shasta |
| Reported area in hectares | 13,118 ha (converted from acres) |
| Extent of the mapped outline | 12.8 × 22.7 km (west–east × south–north) |
| Containment entry in the archive | 25 August 2014 |
What the perimeter shows
The longer dimension runs north–south and is about 1.8 times the shorter one. A circular buffer drawn around the incident point would hide that difference. A road or settlement at the same distance from the point could fall inside or outside the mapped footprint depending on its direction.
Two estimates of area
The incident report gives 32,416 acres; the interagency feature stores 31,995.2 GIS acres. The mapped value is 420.8 acres below the reported value (1.30%). This compares two published measurements, not two observation times. The difference cannot be read as fire growth.
CAL FIRE also records structures destroyed: 21. 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 Beaver Fire of 2014 is the closest match by reported acreage in this 100-case collection (32,496 acres). Its mapped spans are 20.2 by 13.7 km, west–east then south–north, versus 12.8 by 22.7 km here. The longer axes run in different directions. Matching on acreage would miss that contrast.
Sources and map method
- Eiler Fire · CAL FIRE incident record
- NIFC interagency history · source perimeter (GeoJSON)
- Beaver 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.