Shelly Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,143 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.033, -108.350.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

12,143 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

12,343 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

June 15, 1989

State

New Mexico

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

NMGNF

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

1989-NMGNF-000095

MTBS fire identifier

NM3303310834919890615

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

• Silver City, NM19 miles south of the fire
• Arenas Valley, NM19 miles southeast of the fire
• Santa Clara, NM21 miles southeast of the fire
• Bayard, NM23 miles southeast of the fire
• Hurley, NM26 miles southeast of the fire
• Lordsburg, NM52 miles southwest 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.