Mule Fire
The Mule Fire burned 5,500 acres in New Mexico, in 1994. It was discovered on May 25, 1994, and contained on June 16, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,500 acres
- Discovered
- May 25, 1994
- Contained
- June 16, 1994
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,239 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.023, -109.037.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,239 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,470 acres
- Discovered
- May 25, 1994, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 16, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZASF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1994-AZASF-000064
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3304410903519940525
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-291354
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat Complex | 41,800 | Jun 11, 1994 | |
| Pot Fire | 22,200 | Jun 5, 1994 | Natural |
| Relapse Fire | 17,000 | Jun 15, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 14,636 | Jul 20, 1994 | |
| Organ Fire | 13,804 | Jun 27, 1994 | Natural |
| Pass Fire | 12,544 | Jun 29, 1994 | |
| Black Fire | 11,500 | Jul 22, 1994 | Natural |
| Oscura Fire | 10,000 | Jun 11, 1994 | Natural |
| Hat Fire | 9,000 | Jun 29, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,495 | Jul 20, 1994 | |
| Woods Fire | 7,000 | Jan 5, 1994 | |
| Center Fire | 6,767 | Jun 12, 1994 |
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.