Plant Fire
The Plant Fire burned 1,200 acres in Arizona, in 1995. It was discovered on August 3, 1995, and contained on August 7, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1995
- Contained
- August 7, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,024 acres, mapped by digitized from hardcopy orthophoto quad. Point of origin as reported, 34.333, -111.667.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,024 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1995, 3:32 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 7, 1995, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Coconino National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZCOF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1995-AZCOF-000348
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-302677
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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. 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.