Ja 1 Fire
The Ja 1 Fire burned 1,860 acres in New Mexico, in 1992. It was discovered on October 13, 1992, and contained on October 13, 1992. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,860 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1992
- Contained
- October 13, 1992
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,944 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.267, -103.451.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,860 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,944 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1992, 11:45 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 13, 1992, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Roswell Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3227210341919921013
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-40196
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 |
| Beaver Fire | 3,150 | Sep 28, 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 |
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. 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.