Wildfires of 1988

Custer Fire

1988New MexicoWildfire

The Custer Fire burned 2,406 acres in New Mexico, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to November 15, 1988.

Size
2,406 acres
Ignition
November 15, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,406 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.180, -103.080.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,406 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
November 15, 1988
State
New Mexico
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3418010308019881115
MTBS assessment
Extended (SS)
Note on the perimeter
Extended assessment due to limited scenes

Other large fires in New Mexico in 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Fort Fire20,316Dec 23, 1988
Tatum Fire15,150Nov 26, 1988
Unnamed Fire8,447Apr 7, 1988
Rosa Fire7,385Feb 22, 1988
Magnum Fire6,487Mar 10, 1988
Kemnitz Fire5,930Nov 8, 1988
Miami Fire3,152Mar 25, 1988
Saw Fire3,110May 6, 1988
Lechugwest Fire2,729Jun 13, 1988
Unit 21 Fire2,715Dec 19, 1988
Milagro Fire1,954Feb 21, 1988
Prude Fire1,921

Every fire of 1988 New Mexico fire history

Nearby

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.