Wildfires of 1987

Gadfly Fire

1987ColoradoWildfire

The Gadfly Fire burned 3,088 acres in Colorado, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to July 23, 1987.

Size
3,088 acres
Ignition
July 23, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,088 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.273, -108.332.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,088 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 23, 1987
State
Colorado
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CO4027310833219870723
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Colorado in 19876

FireAcresStartCause
Battlement Fire3,847Jul 7, 1987
Sierra Fire3,465Jul 20, 1987
Aztecthree Fire2,856Jul 5, 1987
Dinosaur Fire2,794
Tank Fire2,414Aug 20, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,847Aug 5, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Colorado 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.