California Wildfire Affected Areas: SQF Complex
Castle Fire 2020
Sequoia Complex SQF
Castle Fire + Shotgun Fire
Tulare County
174,178 Acres burned
228 structures destroyed
Lightning strike fires on the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada, along Western Divide Highway and Giant Sequoia National Monument. The lightning-caused Castle and Shotgun Fires were discovered on August 19, 2020, and later managed as one incident named the SQF Complex.
The Castle Fire burned on portions of the Sequoia National Forest and Giant Sequoia National Monument (131,087acres), Inyo National Forest (12,508 acres), Sequoia National Park (18,984 acres)
Castle fire swept through portions of 20 different Sequoia groves in the southern Sierra. The number of mature Sequoia Trees that died could easily top 1000.
Pierpoint Springs
Sequoia Crest
Wishon Campground in 2000 |
South Sequoia National Park
Giant Sequoia National Monument
Western Divide Highway 190
Mountain Home Sequoia Groves |
Sierra Nevada Rivers affected by this wildland fire:
Kern River, upperKaweah River, south fork
2010 Tule River, North fork |
Bear Creek
Clicks Creek
Coy Creek
Coyote Creek
Deep Meadow
Dennison Ridge
Dillionwood Grove
Doe Meadow
Freeman Creek Grove
Flat Iron
Forks of the Kern Trailhead
Garfield Creek
Golden Trout Creek
Grasshopper Creek
Hell for Sure Creek
Hockett Peak
Hockett Peak Creek
Hole-in-the-Ground (Kern River)
Homers Nose Trailhead
Homers Nose Grove
Hossack Creek
Jenny Creek
Jerkey Trailhead
Junction Meadow
Kern Flat
Kramer Meadow
Lewis Camp Trailhead
Lion Meadow
Little Kern River
Long Meadow
McIntrye Grove
Moses Mountain
Needlerock Creek
Needles Lookout
Ninemile Creek
Osa Creek
Painters Camp
Pine Creek
Putman Creek
Quaking Aspen Meadow
Rancheria Creek
Rattlesnake Creek
Sequoia Crest
Sidehill Meadow
South Fork Grove
Upper Kern Canyon
Willow Meadow
Smoldering Sequoia (months later) |
Campgrounds affected by this fire:
Belknap Campground
Camp Wishon
Mountain Home Guard Station
Shake Camp
South Fork Campground NPS
Sunset Point Campground
Quaking Aspen Campground
Upper Peppermint Campground