Wildfires of 1990

Solada Fire

1990New MexicoWildfire

The Solada Fire burned 3,418 acres in New Mexico, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to June 2, 1990.

Size
3,418 acres
Ignition
June 2, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,418 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.275, -106.506.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,418 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 2, 1990
State
New Mexico
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3227510648119900602
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Fire area found larger than that of reported one.

Other large fires in New Mexico in 199012

FireAcresStartCause
Culberson Fire33,758
Big Fire24,753May 13, 1990
Unnamed Fire6,596Jun 23, 1990
Redondo Fire5,406Jun 21, 1990
Hilo-Peak Fire2,908Jun 27, 1990
Obar Fire2,892Feb 8, 1990
Unnamed Fire2,784Jun 23, 1990
Mine Fire2,552Jun 30, 1990
Sophia Fire2,445Apr 16, 1990
Gileslee Fire2,353Jun 5, 1990
Unnamed Fire2,222Apr 4, 1990
Wilson Fire2,078Jun 28, 1990

Every fire of 1990 New Mexico fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.