Annual Fire Atlases

The 2020 Castle Fire as seen from the vicinity of the Hockett Ranger Station in Sequoia National Park.

Photo: NPS / J. James

Below are links to annual fire atlases and in some cases with a year-end fire summary and a bar plot summarizing area burned annually with the Parks since 1968 when our prescribed burn program began is shown below. Maps are in JPG or Acrobat PDF format. If you can download the free Acrobat viewer from Adobe.

Fire Atlases:

These maps, in some cases have accompanying text, show the location of prescribed natural fires, suppressed lightning fires, human-caused wildfires, and planned and completed prescribed burns in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.

2020 (228 kb jpeg)
2019 (216 kb jpeg)
2018 (235 kb jpeg)
2017 (914 kb pdf)
2016 (306 kb pdf)

Fires in the parks from 1968 - 2020. The chart depicts fire numbers and size since 1968. The parks had 19 wildfires in 2020, most of which were lightning caused and contributed to nearly 30,000 acres burned. This continues the trend of human-caused fires for the last decade.

NPS - Sequoia & Kings Canyon National Parks - K Folger.