Beaver Fire
The Beaver Fire burned 3,150 acres in New Mexico, in 1992. It was discovered on September 28, 1992, and contained on December 24, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,150 acres
- Discovered
- September 28, 1992
- Contained
- December 24, 1992
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,282 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.392, -108.225.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,150 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,282 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,281 acres
- Discovered
- September 28, 1992, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 24, 1992, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1992-NMGNF-000197
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3339710823319920928
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-260492
- 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 199212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creel Fire | 29,000 | Jun 3, 1992 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,000 | Oct 1, 1992 | Human |
| Augustine Fire | 8,900 | Mar 8, 1992 | |
| Frontier Fire | 8,000 | Mar 19, 1992 | |
| Gobbler Fire | 6,000 | Jun 23, 1992 | Natural |
| Newton Fire | 5,382 | Feb 21, 1992 | |
| Cub Fire | 4,000 | Jun 24, 1992 | Natural |
| Meeks Fire | 3,000 | Mar 7, 1992 | |
| Isabel Fire | 2,880 | Apr 4, 1992 | |
| Perez Fire | 2,663 | Apr 15, 1992 | |
| Sawyer Fire | 2,160 | May 14, 1992 | |
| Stiles Fire | 1,920 | Oct 9, 1992 |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.