Pinatosa Fire
The Pinatosa Fire burned 7,100 acres in New Mexico, in 1996. It was discovered on March 12, 1996, and contained on March 17, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 7,100 acres
- Discovered
- March 12, 1996
- Contained
- March 17, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,450 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.208, -105.777.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,100 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,450 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,395 acres
- Discovered
- March 12, 1996, 11:02 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 17, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Cibola National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-NMCIF-000003
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3419810574419960312
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-311411
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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 | |
| Hondo Fire | 7,525 | May 5, 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.