Wildfires of 1992

State Park Fire

1992ArizonaWildfire

The State Park Fire burned 1,581 acres in Arizona, in 1992. It was discovered on June 20, 1992, and contained on June 22, 1992. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,581 acres
Discovered
June 20, 1992
Contained
June 22, 1992
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,002 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.427, -110.915.

The record

Reported final size
1,581 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,002 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
749 acres
Discovered
June 20, 1992, 1:30 p.m. local time
Contained
June 22, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Arizona
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Coronado National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZCNF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3243811088719920620
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-260396

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 199212

FireAcresStartCause
Granite Fire2,569Jun 23, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire2,500Jul 19, 1992Natural
Garcia Fire2,119Apr 29, 1992
CHUICHU6 Fire2,106Jun 27, 1992Human
Black Mt Fire2,000Jul 18, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire1,817Jun 26, 1992
Ca Chnl 2 Fire1,285Apr 19, 1992Human
Gillespie Fire1,275Jun 23, 1992Natural
Old Yellow Fire1,150Jun 1, 1992Human
Rock Tank Fire1,148Apr 28, 1992
Cordova Fire1,116Apr 10, 1992
Unnamed Fire1,039Apr 30, 1992

Every fire of 1992 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. 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.