Disappointment Fire
The Disappointment Fire burned 3,840 acres in Colorado, in 1996. It was discovered on July 20, 1996, and contained on July 26, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,840 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 1996
- Contained
- July 26, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,642 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.814, -108.573.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,840 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,642 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,825 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 1996, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 26, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- San Juan National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COSJF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3779910856319960720
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-316246
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
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 |
| Canyon Fire | 9,523 | Apr 1, 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 |
| 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.