Wildfires of 1987

Unnamed Fire

1987ArizonaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,959 acres in Arizona, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to September 3, 1987.

Size
2,959 acres
Ignition
September 3, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,959 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.632, -109.233.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,959 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,497 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
September 3, 1987
State
Arizona
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZASF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1987-AZASF-000223
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3363210923319870903
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad

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 Arizona in 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Guthrie Fire5,942Jun 15, 1987
Seven Falls Fire5,768
Tilla 2 Fire5,521Aug 30, 1987
Unnamed Fire5,298Jun 29, 1987
Unnamed Fire4,467Mar 28, 1987
Slim Fire3,523Jul 4, 1987
Smithsouth Fire3,123Jun 27, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,967Jun 15, 1987
Lampshire Fire2,421Jun 9, 1987
South Fire2,315Jun 27, 1987
Bonita II Fire2,123Jun 15, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,121Aug 14, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Arizona 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.