Mocking Bird Fire
The Mocking Bird Fire burned 1,472 acres in Arizona, in 1994. It was discovered on July 25, 1994, and contained on August 17, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,472 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 1994
- Contained
- August 17, 1994
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,376 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.248, -111.835.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,472 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,376 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,794 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 17, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Prescott National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZPNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1994-AZPNF-000060
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3423311183419940725
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-292224
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- 5000' BUFFER PERIMETER
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesnake Fire | 27,720 | Jun 28, 1994 | Natural |
| Coyote Fire | 21,276 | Jun 27, 1994 | Natural |
| Rincon* Nps Fire | 15,077 | ||
| Rincon Fire | 14,590 | Jul 6, 1994 | Natural |
| Cottonwood Fire | 11,809 | Jun 22, 1994 | Natural |
| TOWERS-1 Fire | 10,250 | Jul 1, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,286 | Jul 2, 1994 | |
| Armor Fire | 5,760 | Jun 29, 1994 | Natural |
| Redington Fire | 5,153 | Jul 1, 1994 | Natural |
| Warm Fire | 5,000 | Aug 13, 1994 | Natural |
| Castle Fire | 4,763 | Jun 28, 1994 | Natural |
| Peck Fire | 4,321 | Jun 28, 1994 | 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.