Escondido Fire
The Escondido Fire burned 14,103 acres in New Mexico, in 1993. It was discovered on June 1, 1993, and contained on June 6, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 14,103 acres
- Discovered
- June 1, 1993
- Contained
- June 6, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 25,693 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.150, -105.784.
The record
- Reported final size
- 14,103 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 25,693 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 23,622 acres
- Discovered
- June 1, 1993, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 6, 1993, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Las Cruces Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1993-NMLCD-035384
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3214410588019930601
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-35385
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
- Note on the perimeter
- L546 & L547 FIRES MERGED
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 199312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brush Fire | 32,000 | May 14, 1993 | Natural |
| Linch Fire | 27,181 | Jun 9, 1993 | Natural |
| Jaltwo Fire | 19,610 | Jun 3, 1993 | Human |
| Snf Assist Fire | 15,692 | ||
| Maddox 2 Fire | 15,000 | Jun 1, 1993 | |
| Ojo Fire | 14,876 | Mar 24, 1993 | |
| Stone Fire | 14,700 | May 21, 1993 | Natural |
| Bell Fire | 13,820 | May 21, 1993 | Natural |
| Uvas Fire | 11,856 | Jun 16, 1993 | Natural |
| Buchanon Fire | 11,553 | ||
| Range Fire | 9,000 | Jul 11, 1993 | Natural |
| Iron Fire | 6,400 | May 24, 1993 | Natural |
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.