Horseshoe Fire
The Horseshoe Fire burned 8,650 acres in Arizona, in 1996. It was discovered on May 18, 1996, and contained on May 25, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 8,650 acres
- Discovered
- May 18, 1996
- Contained
- May 25, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,308 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.420, -111.782.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,650 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,308 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,487 acres
- Discovered
- May 18, 1996, 1:29 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 25, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- 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-000081
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3544711175219960518
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-311336
- 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 |
| Hockderffer Fire | 16,400 | Jun 20, 1996 | Natural |
| 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.