Angel Fire
The Angel Fire burned 2,500 acres in New Mexico, in 1997. It was discovered on July 24, 1997.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- July 24, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,924 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.820, -103.393.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,924 acres
- Discovered
- July 24, 1997
- 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
- NM3284310340319970724
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NM98-50360128X
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 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perez Fire | 38,000 | Mar 16, 1997 | |
| Lilly Fire | 25,000 | Apr 27, 1997 | Natural |
| Horton Fire | 25,000 | Mar 3, 1997 | |
| Caprock Fire | 10,240 | Jan 3, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,427 | Mar 7, 1997 | |
| Garita Fire | 8,000 | Mar 13, 1997 | |
| Rabbit Fire | 7,600 | ||
| Langstroth Fire | 5,800 | ||
| CR-50 Fire | 5,760 | Jun 2, 1997 | |
| Rinker Fire | 5,200 | Mar 24, 1997 | |
| Rocky Fire | 4,000 | Apr 21, 1997 | Natural |
| Ubar Fire | 3,220 | Jan 30, 1997 |
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.