Canyon Fire
The Canyon Fire burned 1,090 acres in Colorado, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to September 7, 1988.
- Size
- 1,090 acres
- Ignition
- September 7, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,090 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.120, -105.326.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,090 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,458 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 7, 1988
- State
- Colorado
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COARF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4012010532619880907
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- MovedPnt
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 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| I Do Fire | 16,264 | Jul 16, 1988 | |
| Zenobia Fire | 5,139 | ||
| Home Fire | 3,456 | Jul 17, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,245 | Mar 27, 1988 | |
| Dinosaur Fire | 2,145 | Jul 21, 1988 | |
| Buck Draw Fire | 1,882 | Jul 14, 1988 | |
| Dinosaur Fire | 1,857 | Jul 17, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,843 | Jul 16, 1988 | |
| Flat Iron Fire | 1,680 | Jul 17, 1988 | |
| Sentinel Fire | 1,580 | Sep 7, 1988 | |
| Grace Creek Fire | 1,456 | Sep 6, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,352 | Mar 1, 1988 |
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.