RIM FIRE: INTERESTIG STATS, AUGUST 30th, 4:36 p.m.

August 30, 2013    04:36 pm        Tracey Petersen, MML News Reporter

Tuolumne County, CA -- The Rim Fire Incident Command has released a facts sheet on the blaze.

Here is the Rim Fire Facts Sheet as released by Incident Command:

• Day 14
• Acreage: 201,894
• Largest fire in the United States to date in 2013•
• No. 1-ranked on national firefighting priority list
• Fifth largest fire in California history
  •Second largest U.S. fire to date in 2013: Lime Hills Fire, Alaska 201,809 acres
• States that have sent firefighters or other personnel:
  41 and the District of Columbia
• Uncontrolled fire edge: 96.8 miles
• Completed containment line: 65.5 miles Completed dozer line: 105.7 miles
• Total aviation hours: 14,400
• Water dropped: 1.4 million gallons 
• Fire retardant dropped: 1.7 million gallons
• Proportion of the fire burning within the Stanislaus National Forest:
  74.6 percent
• Proportion of the fire burning in Yosemite National Park:
  24 percent
• Proportion of the fire burning on state and private property:
  1.4 percent
• Proportion of the Stanislaus National Forest within the fire perimeter:
  16.8 percent