Hockderffer Fire
The Hockderffer Fire burned 16,400 acres in Arizona, in 1996. It was discovered on June 20, 1996, and contained on July 3, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 16,400 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 1996
- Contained
- July 3, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 17,745 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.380, -111.753.
The record
- Reported final size
- 16,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 17,745 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 17,472 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 1996, 1:51 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 3, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Coconino National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZCOF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-AZCOF-000119
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3541611168519960620
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-318043
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Mid Level
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 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Fire | 58,960 | Apr 27, 1996 | Human |
| Bridger Knoll Fire | 35,907 | Jun 20, 1996 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 19,677 | Apr 2, 1996 | |
| Jump Fire | 17,688 | Jun 22, 1996 | Natural |
| Horseshoe Fire | 8,650 | May 18, 1996 | Human |
| Montosa Fire | 8,586 | ||
| Pot Fire | 7,000 | Jun 21, 1996 | Natural |
| Clark Peak Fire | 6,716 | Apr 24, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,893 | Apr 2, 1996 | |
| Whitesprg Fire | 4,263 | Apr 24, 1996 | Human |
| ALLENTOWN5 Fire | 3,393 | Jun 7, 1996 | Natural |
| Hdscrabble Fire | 2,674 | Jul 6, 1996 | 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. 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.