Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 12,000 acres in New Mexico, in 1992. It was discovered on October 1, 1992, and contained on October 4, 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to October 2, 1992. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 12,000 acres
- Discovered
- October 1, 1992
- Contained
- October 4, 1992
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,997 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.400, -105.800.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,997 acres
- Discovered
- October 1, 1992, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- October 2, 1992
- Contained
- October 4, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Las Cruces Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3239610585619921002
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-40176
- Note on the perimeter
- grassland and barrenland
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 |
| 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 | |
| Stiles Fire | 1,920 | Oct 9, 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.