Divide Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,402 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.251, -107.853.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

9,402 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

9,406 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

July 1, 1989

State

New Mexico

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

NMGNF

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

1989-NMGNF-000116

MTBS fire identifier

NM3325110785319890701

MTBS assessment

Extended

Perimeter map method

Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level

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 New Mexico fire history

• Mimbres, NM28 miles south of the fire
• Truth or Consequences, NM36 miles east of the fire
• Santa Clara, NM37 miles southwest of the fire
• Arenas Valley, NM37 miles southwest of the fire
• Bayard, NM37 miles southwest of the fire
• Elephant Butte, NM39 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.