Fort Fire
The Fort Fire burned 20,316 acres in New Mexico, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to December 23, 1988.
- Size
- 20,316 acres
- Ignition
- December 23, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 20,316 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.119, -103.354.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 20,316 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 23, 1988
- State
- New Mexico
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3311910335419881223
- MTBS assessment
- Extended (SS)
- Note on the perimeter
- Limited scenes hard to delineate fire perimeter
Other large fires in New Mexico in 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tatum Fire | 15,150 | Nov 26, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,447 | Apr 7, 1988 | |
| Rosa Fire | 7,385 | Feb 22, 1988 | |
| Magnum Fire | 6,487 | Mar 10, 1988 | |
| Kemnitz Fire | 5,930 | Nov 8, 1988 | |
| Miami Fire | 3,152 | Mar 25, 1988 | |
| Saw Fire | 3,110 | May 6, 1988 | |
| Lechugwest Fire | 2,729 | Jun 13, 1988 | |
| Unit 21 Fire | 2,715 | Dec 19, 1988 | |
| Custer Fire | 2,406 | Nov 15, 1988 | |
| Milagro Fire | 1,954 | Feb 21, 1988 | |
| Prude Fire | 1,921 |
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.