Farley Fire
The Farley Fire burned 10,000 acres in New Mexico, in 1996. It was discovered on February 26, 1996.
- Size
- 10,000 acres
- Discovered
- February 26, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,451 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.239, -104.143.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,451 acres
- Discovered
- February 26, 1996
- 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
- NM3628910412519960226
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NM96-20170405X
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 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 22,580 | Jun 23, 1996 | |
| Lookout Fire | 17,000 | Jun 8, 1996 | Natural |
| Dome Fire | 16,575 | Apr 25, 1996 | Human |
| Cherry Fire | 15,835 | ||
| Archuleta Fire | 15,356 | Jun 10, 1996 | Natural |
| Chino Well Fire | 8,260 | Apr 20, 1996 | Human |
| Rabbit Fire | 7,600 | Mar 23, 1996 | |
| Hondo Fire | 7,525 | May 5, 1996 | Human |
| Pinatosa Fire | 7,100 | Mar 12, 1996 | Human |
| Langstroth Fire | 6,500 | Jun 9, 1996 | Natural |
| San Pedro Fire | 5,975 | Jun 8, 1996 | Human |
| K35 Fire | 5,509 |
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.