Wildfires of 1986

Hay Fire

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The Hay Fire burned 1,672 acres in New Mexico, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to March 15, 1986.

Size: 1,672 acres
Ignition: March 15, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,672 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.019, -104.367.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 1,672 acres
Ignition (MTBS): March 15, 1986
State: New Mexico
Incident type: Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier: NM3203310436719860315
MTBS assessment: Initial (SS)

Other large fires in New Mexico in 19861

Fire	Acres	Start	Cause
Granite Fire	1,582	Apr 17, 1986

Every fire of 1986 New Mexico fire history

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Sources

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.