Big Joe Fire
The Big Joe Fire burned 2,536 acres in Colorado, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to August 16, 1986.
- Size
- 2,536 acres
- Ignition
- August 16, 1986
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,536 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.829, -108.819.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,536 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,517 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 16, 1986
- State
- Colorado
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COLSD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4082910881919860816
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
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 Colorado in 19865
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 25,753 | Mar 26, 1986 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,206 | Aug 5, 1986 | |
| Westtoe Fire | 5,390 | Jun 21, 1986 | |
| Hogan Fire | 5,300 | Jun 21, 1986 | |
| Long Fire | 1,190 | Aug 9, 1986 |
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.