Dinosaur Fire
The Dinosaur Fire burned 2,145 acres in Colorado, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 21, 1988.
- Size
- 2,145 acres
- Ignition
- July 21, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,145 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.525, -105.180.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,145 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 21, 1988
- State
- Colorado
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3852510518019880721
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- This fire was reprocessed to fix a problem in the extents.
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Thirteen Fire | 1,337 | May 13, 1988 |
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.