Wildfires of 1988

Dutton Fire

1988ArizonaWildfire

The Dutton Fire burned 3,360 acres in Arizona, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 9, 1988.

Size
3,360 acres
Ignition
July 9, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,360 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.300, -112.386.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,360 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,708 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 9, 1988
State
Arizona
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
AZGCP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1988-AZGCP-000100
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3630011238619880709
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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

FireAcresStartCause
Peak Fire16,070Jun 10, 1988
Jacket Fire9,017Jul 2, 1988
Mead Fire4,855Jun 4, 1988
Pakoon Fire4,308Jul 25, 1988
Bennett Fire3,721
Pinnacle Fire3,436Jun 26, 1988
Wilderness Fire3,339Jun 16, 1988
Saddle Gap Fire2,762Jun 4, 1988
Unnamed Fire2,649Jun 13, 1988
Cedar Fire2,296Jun 16, 1988
Little Fire2,199
Unnamed Fire1,784May 28, 1988

Every fire of 1988 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.