Wildfires of 1987

Dinosaur Fire

1987ColoradoWildfire

The Dinosaur Fire burned 2,794 acres in Colorado, in 1987. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,794 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,794 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 38.521, -105.176.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,794 acres
State
Colorado
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

Other large fires in Colorado in 19876

FireAcresStartCause
Battlement Fire3,847Jul 7, 1987
Sierra Fire3,465Jul 20, 1987
Gadfly Fire3,088Jul 23, 1987
Aztecthree Fire2,856Jul 5, 1987
Tank Fire2,414Aug 20, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,847Aug 5, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Colorado 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. 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.