Sprite Fire
The Sprite Fire burned 7,691 acres in New Mexico, in 1995. It was discovered on July 21, 1995, and contained on August 19, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 7,691 acres
- Discovered
- July 21, 1995
- Contained
- August 19, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,378 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.258, -108.568.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,691 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,378 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,369 acres
- Discovered
- July 21, 1995, 5:21 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 19, 1995, 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
- NMGNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1995-NMGNF-000120
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3323510854019950721
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-303467
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level
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 199512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bonner Fire | 29,000 | Jun 27, 1995 | Natural |
| Choases Fire | 28,648 | ||
| H.b Fire | 13,000 | Jul 27, 1995 | Human |
| South Fire | 10,000 | Apr 7, 1995 | Natural |
| Radio Fire | 5,940 | May 15, 1995 | Natural |
| Granite Fire | 4,784 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 4,304 | Jul 30, 1995 | |
| Q-Ball Fire | 4,300 | Sep 20, 1995 | Natural |
| N Boundary A Fire | 3,754 | Apr 11, 1995 | |
| W S Fire | 3,038 | Oct 21, 1995 | Human |
| Jack Fire | 3,000 | Jan 11, 1995 | |
| Mckinght Fire | 3,000 | Jun 23, 1995 |
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.