Box Fire
The Box Fire burned 7,983 acres in New Mexico, in 1989. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 7,983 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 7,983 acres, mapped by hand sketch. Middle of the perimeter, 32.480, -106.538.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,983 acres
- State
- New Mexico
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1989-NMLCD-053259
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
- Note on the perimeter
- CANNOT VERIFY AGAINST A 1202 REPORT
Other large fires in New Mexico in 198912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Fire | 28,767 | Jun 16, 1989 | |
| Knight Fire | 14,111 | ||
| Steel Fire | 13,656 | ||
| Antelope Fire | 13,274 | Jun 16, 1989 | |
| Shelly Fire | 12,143 | Jun 15, 1989 | |
| Oneil Fire | 11,978 | May 29, 1989 | |
| Watts Fire | 11,609 | May 25, 1989 | |
| Caprock Fire | 11,486 | Mar 12, 1989 | |
| Libby Fire | 10,690 | Mar 14, 1989 | |
| Burgette Fire | 10,568 | Mar 10, 1989 | |
| Divide Fire | 9,402 | Jul 1, 1989 | |
| Arkansas Fire | 7,515 | Apr 22, 1989 |
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. 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.