Matthes Prescribed Fire
The Matthes Prescribed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Arizona, in 1995. It was discovered on July 29, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,366 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.165, -111.983.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,366 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,476 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1995, 3:50 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- AZGCP
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1995-AZGCP-000103
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3617311197619950729
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-250808
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 199512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Fire | 24,505 | Jul 7, 1995 | Natural |
| Basin Fire | 22,092 | Jul 7, 1995 | Natural |
| Rhett Fire | 19,725 | Jul 17, 1995 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,416 | Jul 12, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,446 | Sep 25, 1995 | |
| River Fire | 9,500 | Jul 1, 1995 | Human |
| Stove Fire | 9,380 | Jun 13, 1995 | Human |
| Tastefull Fire | 8,682 | Jun 30, 1995 | Natural |
| Squaw Fire | 7,000 | Jul 30, 1995 | Natural |
| Lost Fire | 6,687 | Jul 7, 1995 | Natural |
| Montezuma Fire | 6,512 | Jun 22, 1995 | Human |
| Towerii Fire | 6,445 | Jun 30, 1995 | 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.