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Fire History of Hastings
Fires at Hastings were researched by Dr. Jim Griffin from various newspaper accounts, CDF records, etc. which are in the archives at the Hastings Offices. Here, we present a table describing each fire; the corresponding fire number is shown on a map prepared by Jim Griffin in his 1993 "Natural History of Hastings" booklet.
1. Aug, 1928. A large non-lighting fire burned over
most of the Chew's Ridge region extending into the reserve in Finch Creek
Canyon (VTM map
1930, Linsdale 1943).
2. Pre-1937?? Linsdale
(1943) mentioned a chamise burn on School Hil1
in 1940: this date this be wrong. Pre-1939 burns are evident in that
area on 1939 photos. No later burns are evident on post-1939 photos.
Pre-1939 burns also appear on the SE and NE portions of the Robinson
Annex. These pre-1939 burns were probably winter "range improvement" burns
to discourage chamise and encourage grass.
3. Jul 1937. A non-lightning fire burned chamise on
the south slope of Haystack Hill (Linsdale
1943) The boundary o£ the £ire clearly
shows on the 1939 aerial photos of the reserve.
4. Aug 22, 1939. Lightning started two fires on the
Lambert Ranch west of Arnold Field which burned 20 ha (49 ac) of oak
savannas These fires
burned up to the reserve boundary (Linsdale
1943).
5. Aug 5, 1955. Man-caused fire started near the Red House and burned
120 ha. (297 ac) o£ chaparral (Davis 1967a) . Only two
ha (5 ac) o£ the
burn were on the reserve . The remainder of the burn was on what is now
the Robinson Annex.
6. Jul 1957. A Man-caused fire burned five ha (12 ac) of oak savanna
between Carmel Valley Road and Arnold Road Flat.
7. ?, 1965. Several chamise patches were winter-burned
for range improvement purposes on the south slope of Poison Oak Hi11
on the Bell Ranch
8. Jul 14, 1979. A man-caused fire burned 0.2 ha (0.4 ac) of woodland
and riparian vegetation along Carmel Valley Road in Finch Canyon (near
Pat's Cabin gate)
9. Jul 28, 1979. A man-caused fire (from auto catalytic
converter) in dry grass burned 8 ha (20 ac) o£ grassland and oak
savanna in the Arnold Field vicinity.
10. Aug 10, 1980. A man-caused fire burned (probably
arson) 260 ha (642 ac) of oak savanna, mixed hardwood forest, and chaparral
on Poison Oak
Hill about 180 ha o£ the burn were on the reserve, the
remainder was on the Bell Ranch. This fire started under favorable burning
conditions, and 20 ha (49 ac) probably burned during the first 30 minutes.