• Giant Sequoia Trees

    Sequoia & Kings Canyon

    National Parks California

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  • Changes to Some Opening/Closing Dates for Services and Facilities – Check Back for Updates

    Some of the opening/closing dates for facilities and visitor services in the parks have changed due to weather and/or other circumstances. See link for details and match to locations on the park map (under "Park Tools," bottom left, this page). More »

  • Road Conditions (Entire Park) and Road Construction Delays (if Entering/Exiting Hwy. 198)

    Expect 20-minute to 1-hour construction delays on main road through parks (Generals Hwy) until Memorial Day weekend (7 a.m.-6 p.m.). See link for schedule. Call for 24-hour road conditions info: 559-565-3341 (press 1, 1, 1). More »

  • Vehicle Length Limits Have Changed in Sequoia NP (if Entering/Exiting Hwy 198)

    Planning to see the "Big Trees" in Sequoia National Park? If you enter/exit via Hwy. 198, please pay close attention to new vehicle length advisories for your safety and the safety of others. More »

  • You May Have Trouble Calling Us. Use the "Contact Us" Link (Bottom Left) to Send an E-mail.

    We are experiencing technical problems receiving some incoming phone calls at the parks. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please keep trying to reach us or check this website for frequently-asked questions. The search box (top, right) may be helpful.

Fire Records and Fire Management Maps

Below are links to: 1) annual fire atlases with a year-end fire summary, 2) burn area maps for specific areas of the parks and 3) links to maps and information about currently active fires in the parks. Most maps are in JPG or Acrobat PDF format. If you need the free Acrobat viewer, you can download it here.

A database of GIS data on the park's fire history is also available.

 

Fire Atlases:

These maps and accompanying text show prescribed natural fires, suppressed lightning fires, human-caused wildfires, and planned and completed prescribed burns in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. A bar plot summarizing area burned annually with the Parks since 1921 is shown below. The total area burned in 2005, 14,087 acres, was greater than any previous year in the parks for which there are records (back to 1920).

2011 (260 kb pdf)
2010 (253 kb pdf)
2009 (542 kb pdf)
2008 (577 kb pdf)
2007 (542 kb pdf)
2006 (505 kb pdf)
2005 (616 kb pdf)
2004 (411 kb pdf)
2003 (340 kb pdf)
2002 (150 kb pdf)
2001 (217 kb pdf)
2000 (192 kb pdf)
1999 (203 kb pdf)
1998 (274 kb pdf)
1997 (154 kb pdf)
1996 (216 kb pdf)
1995 (62 kb pdf)

 
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Other Maps:

  • Burned Areas - Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park: Prescribed and wildfires since the 1970's, current as of 5/23/05 (569 kb PDF).
  • Burned Areas - Redwood Mountain, Kings Canyon National Park: Kings Canyon National Park: Prescribed and wildfires since the 1960's, current as of 6/14/98 (247 KB PDF).
  • Burned Areas - Grant Grove, Prescribed burns and wildfires in the Grant Grove area, current as of 7/13/2005 (157 KB PDF).
  • Burned Areas - Cedar Grove, Prescribed burns and wildfires in the Cedar Grove area, current through 2001 (279 KB PDF).
  • Burned Areas - East Fork Watershed of the Kaweah River, All fires in the East Fork from 1921 though 2001 (111 KB PDF).
  • Burned Areas - Kern Watershed, All fires in the Upper Kern drainage.

Did You Know?

Layer of air pollution seen from park views..

Sequoia and Kings Canyon suffer from one of the worst air-pollution problems of any national park! Pollution  — particularly ozone — from the Central Valley and the Bay Area is carried up into these mountains by warm winds. It challenges all of us  everywhere to clear the air!