Ws Fire
The Ws Fire burned 3,040 acres in Arizona, in 1995. MTBS dates its ignition to October 21, 1995.
- Size
- 3,040 acres
- Ignition
- October 21, 1995
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,040 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.518, -109.046.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,040 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,917 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- October 21, 1995
- State
- Arizona
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1995-AZASF-000273
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3351910904819951021
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- grew into Rhett FS-0301-159-950717
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. 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.