Big Fire
The Big Fire burned 24,753 acres in New Mexico, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to May 13, 1990.
- Size
- 24,753 acres
- Ignition
- May 13, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 24,753 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.061, -104.701.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 24,753 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 18,485 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 13, 1990
- State
- New Mexico
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMLNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1990-NMLNF-000016
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3206110470119900513
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter hand drawn then digitized
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 199012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Culberson Fire | 33,758 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 6,596 | Jun 23, 1990 | |
| Redondo Fire | 5,406 | Jun 21, 1990 | |
| Solada Fire | 3,418 | Jun 2, 1990 | |
| Hilo-Peak Fire | 2,908 | Jun 27, 1990 | |
| Obar Fire | 2,892 | Feb 8, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,784 | Jun 23, 1990 | |
| Mine Fire | 2,552 | Jun 30, 1990 | |
| Sophia Fire | 2,445 | Apr 16, 1990 | |
| Gileslee Fire | 2,353 | Jun 5, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,222 | Apr 4, 1990 | |
| Wilson Fire | 2,078 | Jun 28, 1990 |
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.