Lummis Fire
The Lummis Fire burned 1,655 acres in New Mexico, in 1997. It was discovered on June 29, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,655 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,137 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.792, -106.307.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,655 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,137 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,137 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 1997, 5:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Bandelier National Monument
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- NMBAP
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-NMBAP-009707
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3578610631619970629
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-264861
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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
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.