Center Mtn Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,230 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.472, -107.477.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,230 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

1,244 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

September 25, 1989

State

Colorado

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

COGWD

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

CO3947210747719890925

MTBS assessment

Extended

Perimeter map method

Digitized-Topo

Note on the perimeter

Full Suppression, Center Mountain

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.

Every fire of 1989 Colorado fire history

• New Castle, CO8 miles northwest of the fire
• Glenwood Springs, CO10 miles northeast of the fire
• Silt, CO11 miles northwest of the fire
• Carbondale, CO15 miles east of the fire
• Rifle, CO17 miles west of the fire
• El Jebel, CO21 miles east of the fire

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.