Long Mesa Fire
The Long Mesa Fire burned 2,662 acres in Colorado, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to July 8, 1989.
- Size
- 2,662 acres
- Ignition
- July 8, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,662 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.242, -108.539.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,662 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,660 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 8, 1989
- State
- Colorado
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- COMVP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1989-COMVP-000039
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3724210853919890708
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 Colorado in 198911
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,500 | Mar 13, 1989 | |
| Burned Out Fire | 3,302 | ||
| #6 Fire | 1,545 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,544 | Jul 8, 1989 | |
| Mv Brown Fire | 1,468 | Mar 15, 1989 | |
| Sunnyside Fire | 1,414 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Clark Wash Fire | 1,385 | Jul 1, 1989 | |
| Barcus Fire | 1,318 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,305 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Center Mtn Fire | 1,230 | Sep 25, 1989 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,066 | Mar 25, 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. 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.