Green Fire
The Green Fire burned 1,906 acres in Arizona, in 1997. It was discovered on July 15, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,906 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,119 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.387, -110.039.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,906 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,119 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 1997, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- San Carlos Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3339811005919970715
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-424418
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Figueroa Fire | 900 | May 7, 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.