Hondo Fire
The Hondo Fire burned 7,525 acres in New Mexico, in 1996. It was discovered on May 5, 1996, and contained on May 10, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 7,525 acres
- Discovered
- May 5, 1996
- Contained
- May 10, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,250 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.632, -105.667.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,525 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,250 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,530 acres
- Discovered
- May 5, 1996, 12:35 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 10, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Carson National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-NMCAF-000056
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3664910559119960505
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-321476
- 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 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 |
| Farley Fire | 10,000 | Feb 26, 1996 | |
| Chino Well Fire | 8,260 | Apr 20, 1996 | Human |
| Rabbit Fire | 7,600 | Mar 23, 1996 | |
| 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
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.