Wildfires of 1988

Unnamed Fire

1988ColoradoOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,212 acres in Colorado, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 17, 1988.

Size
1,212 acres
Ignition
July 17, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,212 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.746, -108.692.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,212 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 17, 1988
State
Colorado
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
CO3775610869319880717
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Shrub has burned on the scar and little or no conifer has burned The location is classified as evergreen in the NLCD layer

Other large fires in Colorado in 198812

FireAcresStartCause
I Do Fire16,264Jul 16, 1988
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

Every fire of 1988 Colorado fire history

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.