Wildfires of 1990

Dude Fire

1990ArizonaWildfire

The Dude Fire burned 25,057 acres in Arizona, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to June 25, 1990.

Size
25,057 acres
Ignition
June 25, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 25,057 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.384, -111.171.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
25,057 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
24,756 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 25, 1990
State
Arizona
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZTNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1990-AZTNF-000056
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3438411117119900625
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Other Agency Digital
Perimeter records
3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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 Arizona in 19906

FireAcresStartCause
Montosa Fire9,073Jun 26, 1990
Container Fire3,974Apr 29, 1990
Unnamed Fire3,385May 27, 1990
Unnamed Fire2,923Jun 30, 1990
Maverick Fire1,781Jun 26, 1990
Buster Fire1,473May 24, 1990

Every fire of 1990 Arizona fire history

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.