Figueroa Fire
The Figueroa Fire burned 900 acres in Arizona, in 1997. It was discovered on May 7, 1997, and contained on May 8, 1997.
- Size
- 900 acres
- Discovered
- May 7, 1997
- Contained
- May 8, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,022 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.633, -111.400.
The record
- Reported final size
- 900 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,022 acres
- Discovered
- May 7, 1997, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 8, 1997, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3162311140119970507
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1997AZBAR2707
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 199711
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 5,050 | Aug 20, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,039 | Apr 28, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,984 | Apr 12, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,422 | Apr 12, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,453 | Jun 24, 1997 | |
| Green Fire | 1,906 | Jul 15, 1997 | Natural |
| Dry Lake 1 Fire | 1,882 | Feb 1, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,681 | Jun 24, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,555 | Jun 27, 1997 | |
| Rock Fire | 1,308 | Mar 20, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,259 | Apr 28, 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.