Stoner Fire
The Stoner Fire burned 2,200 acres in New Mexico, in 1995. It was discovered on April 9, 1995.
- Size
- 2,200 acres
- Discovered
- April 9, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,614 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.136, -103.374.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,614 acres
- Discovered
- April 9, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- New Mexico State Forestry Division
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3515310336419950409
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NM95-41340823X
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 |
| Sprite Fire | 7,691 | Jul 21, 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 |
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.