Malpais Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,302 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.831, -108.077.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

2,302 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

2,300 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

June 8, 1989

State

New Mexico

Agency

National Park Service

Unit

NMEMP

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

1989-NMEMP-000003

MTBS fire identifier

NM3483110807719890608

MTBS assessment

Initial

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.

Every fire of 1989 New Mexico fire history

• San Rafael, NM22 miles northeast of the fire
• Grants, NM25 miles northeast of the fire
• Milan, NM26 miles northeast of the fire
• Skyline-Ganipa, NM30 miles northeast of the fire
• Thoreau, NM40 miles north of the fire
• Laguna, NM42 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.