Swan Canyon Fire
The Swan Canyon Fire burned 1,235 acres in New Mexico, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to June 15, 1989.
- Size
- 1,235 acres
- Ignition
- June 15, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,235 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.609, -108.564.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,235 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,234 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 15, 1989
- State
- New Mexico
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMN3S
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3260910856419890615
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level
- Note on the perimeter
- Imported from MTBS - also referred to as Swan Canyon Fire
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 New Mexico in 198912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Fire | 28,767 | Jun 16, 1989 | |
| Knight Fire | 14,111 | ||
| Steel Fire | 13,656 | ||
| Antelope Fire | 13,274 | Jun 16, 1989 | |
| Shelly Fire | 12,143 | Jun 15, 1989 | |
| Oneil Fire | 11,978 | May 29, 1989 | |
| Watts Fire | 11,609 | May 25, 1989 | |
| Caprock Fire | 11,486 | Mar 12, 1989 | |
| Libby Fire | 10,690 | Mar 14, 1989 | |
| Burgette Fire | 10,568 | Mar 10, 1989 | |
| Divide Fire | 9,402 | Jul 1, 1989 | |
| Box Fire | 7,983 |
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.