Unit 21 Fire
The Unit 21 Fire burned 2,715 acres in New Mexico, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to December 19, 1988.
- Size
- 2,715 acres
- Ignition
- December 19, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,715 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.335, -103.132.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,715 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,092 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 19, 1988
- State
- New Mexico
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-NMCIF-000053
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3631710320019881219
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
- Note on the perimeter
- estimated perimeter
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 New Mexico in 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Fire | 20,316 | Dec 23, 1988 | |
| 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 | |
| Custer Fire | 2,406 | Nov 15, 1988 | |
| Milagro Fire | 1,954 | Feb 21, 1988 | |
| Prude Fire | 1,921 |
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.