Rocky Fire
The Rocky Fire burned 4,000 acres in New Mexico, in 1997. It was discovered on April 21, 1997, and contained on August 1, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 1997
- Contained
- August 1, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,194 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.115, -107.998.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,194 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,193 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 1997, 10:02 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 1, 1997, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-NMGNF-000013
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3312210797419970421
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-327441
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Broad Level
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 | |
| Ubar Fire | 3,220 | Jan 30, 1997 | |
| Batespastu Fire | 3,199 | Mar 18, 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.