Wildfires of 1985

Unnamed Fire

1985New MexicoWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,109 acres in New Mexico, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to August 26, 1985.

Size
2,109 acres
Ignition
August 26, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,109 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.021, -108.346.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,109 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,106 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 26, 1985
State
New Mexico
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMGNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1985-NMGNF-000389
MTBS fire identifier
NM3302110834619850826
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in New Mexico in 19857

FireAcresStartCause
Iron Fire4,463
Bloodgood Fire2,427
Double Fire2,274Jun 30, 1985
Shelley Fire1,999
Windmill Fire1,587
Esanandres Fire1,307Jun 10, 1985
Clayton Fire1,024

Every fire of 1985 New Mexico fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.