Wildfires of 1988

I Do Fire

1988ColoradoWildfire

The I Do Fire burned 16,264 acres in Colorado, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 16, 1988.

Size
16,264 acres
Ignition
July 16, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,264 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.417, -108.197.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
16,264 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
15,067 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 16, 1988
State
Colorado
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
COLSD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CO4041710819719880716
MTBS assessment
Initial

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

FireAcresStartCause
Zenobia Fire5,139
Home Fire3,456Jul 17, 1988
Unnamed Fire2,245Mar 27, 1988
Dinosaur Fire2,145Jul 21, 1988
Buck Draw Fire1,882Jul 14, 1988
Dinosaur Fire1,857Jul 17, 1988
Unnamed Fire1,843Jul 16, 1988
Flat Iron Fire1,680Jul 17, 1988
Sentinel Fire1,580Sep 7, 1988
Grace Creek Fire1,456Sep 6, 1988
Unnamed Fire1,352Mar 1, 1988
Thirteen Fire1,337May 13, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Colorado fire history

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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.