Cedar Fire
The Cedar Fire burned 2,296 acres in Arizona, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 16, 1988.
- Size
- 2,296 acres
- Ignition
- June 16, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,296 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.099, -111.769.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,296 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,375 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 16, 1988
- State
- Arizona
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZTNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-AZTNF-000179
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3409911176919880616
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Other Agency Digital
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 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peak Fire | 16,070 | Jun 10, 1988 | |
| Jacket Fire | 9,017 | Jul 2, 1988 | |
| Mead Fire | 4,855 | Jun 4, 1988 | |
| Pakoon Fire | 4,308 | Jul 25, 1988 | |
| Bennett Fire | 3,721 | ||
| Pinnacle Fire | 3,436 | Jun 26, 1988 | |
| Dutton Fire | 3,360 | Jul 9, 1988 | |
| Wilderness Fire | 3,339 | Jun 16, 1988 | |
| Saddle Gap Fire | 2,762 | Jun 4, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,649 | Jun 13, 1988 | |
| Little Fire | 2,199 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,784 | May 28, 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.