Canyon Fire
The Canyon Fire burned 9,523 acres in Colorado, in 1996. It was discovered on April 1, 1996, and contained on April 4, 1996. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 9,523 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1996
- Contained
- April 4, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,226 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.622, -103.622.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,523 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,226 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,871 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1996, 9:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- April 4, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Pike and San Isabel National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3762410359319960401
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-318736
- Note on the perimeter
- BLM support fire
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 Colorado in 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Opinion Fire | 13,775 | Aug 3, 1996 | Natural |
| Buffalo Creek Fire | 11,875 | May 18, 1996 | Human |
| Hatchet Fire | 5,580 | Jul 23, 1996 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,929 | Feb 24, 1996 | |
| Chapin 5 Fire | 4,781 | Aug 18, 1996 | Natural |
| Disappointment Fire | 3,840 | Jul 20, 1996 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,693 | Feb 24, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,253 | Feb 18, 1996 | |
| L.d.falls Fire | 2,201 | Jul 6, 1996 | Natural |
| ZENOBIA2 Fire | 2,149 | Jul 12, 1996 | Natural |
| Three Springs 2 Fire | 2,000 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,845 | Jun 5, 1996 |
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.