Wildfires of 1994

Reynolds Fire

1994New MexicoWildfire

The Reynolds Fire burned 1,500 acres in New Mexico, in 1994. It was discovered on January 1, 1994, and contained on January 1, 1994. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,500 acres
Discovered
January 1, 1994
Contained
January 1, 1994
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,504 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.300, -104.934.

The record

Reported final size
1,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,504 acres
Discovered
January 1, 1994, 1:30 p.m. local time
Contained
January 1, 1994, 8:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
New Mexico
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Roswell Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3429610490519940101
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-30250

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

FireAcresStartCause
Flat Complex41,800Jun 11, 1994
Pot Fire22,200Jun 5, 1994Natural
Relapse Fire17,000Jun 15, 1994
Unnamed Fire14,636Jul 20, 1994
Organ Fire13,804Jun 27, 1994Natural
Pass Fire12,544Jun 29, 1994
Black Fire11,500Jul 22, 1994Natural
Oscura Fire10,000Jun 11, 1994Natural
Hat Fire9,000Jun 29, 1994Natural
Unnamed Fire7,495Jul 20, 1994
Woods Fire7,000Jan 5, 1994
Center Fire6,767Jun 12, 1994

Every fire of 1994 New Mexico fire history

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.