Wildfires of 1994

Mckenzie Fire

1994ArizonaWildfire

The Mckenzie Fire burned 1,053 acres in Arizona, in 1994. It was discovered on May 31, 1994, and contained on June 5, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,053 acres
Discovered
May 31, 1994
Contained
June 5, 1994
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,084 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.883, -113.917.

The record

Reported final size
1,053 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,084 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,262 acres
Discovered
May 31, 1994, 7:00 p.m. local time
Contained
June 5, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Phoenix District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
AZCRD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3488711391119940531
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-26359
Note on the perimeter
No Fire Incident Number could be located.

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 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Rattlesnake Fire27,720Jun 28, 1994Natural
Coyote Fire21,276Jun 27, 1994Natural
Rincon* Nps Fire15,077
Rincon Fire14,590Jul 6, 1994Natural
Cottonwood Fire11,809Jun 22, 1994Natural
TOWERS-1 Fire10,250Jul 1, 1994Natural
Unnamed Fire7,286Jul 2, 1994
Armor Fire5,760Jun 29, 1994Natural
Redington Fire5,153Jul 1, 1994Natural
Warm Fire5,000Aug 13, 1994Natural
Castle Fire4,763Jun 28, 1994Natural
Peck Fire4,321Jun 28, 1994Natural

Every fire of 1994 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.