Flat Iron Fire
The Flat Iron Fire burned 1,680 acres in Colorado, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 17, 1988.
- Size
- 1,680 acres
- Ignition
- July 17, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,680 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.474, -107.798.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,680 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,656 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 17, 1988
- State
- Colorado
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COGWD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3947310779819880717
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
- Note on the perimeter
- Full Suppression
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 | |
| 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
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.