Wildfires of 1991

Hudson Fire

1991New MexicoWildfire

The Hudson Fire burned 1,260 acres in New Mexico, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to June 14, 1991.

Size
1,260 acres
Ignition
June 14, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,260 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.755, -108.851.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,260 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,259 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 14, 1991
State
New Mexico
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMGNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1991-NMGNF-000052
MTBS fire identifier
NM3375510885119910614
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level

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 19918

FireAcresStartCause
Big Fire9,179Mar 5, 1991
Unnamed Fire2,316May 16, 1991
Mile High Fire2,280Apr 5, 1991
To Fire2,193Apr 18, 1991
Hisel Fire1,784Mar 26, 1991
Lovington Fire1,768Mar 6, 1991
Ashbrook Fire1,732Apr 12, 1991
Coleman Fire1,297Jul 10, 1991

Every fire of 1991 New Mexico fire history

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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.