Wildfires of 1990

Unnamed Fire

1990ArizonaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 3,385 acres in Arizona, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to May 27, 1990.

Size
3,385 acres
Ignition
May 27, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,385 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 31.462, -111.398.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,385 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,513 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
May 27, 1990
State
Arizona
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZCNF
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3146211139819900527
MTBS assessment
Initial

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
Dude Fire25,057Jun 25, 1990
Montosa Fire9,073Jun 26, 1990
Container Fire3,974Apr 29, 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.