Wildfires of 1997

Smith Fire

1997New MexicoWildfire

The Smith Fire burned 1,599 acres in New Mexico, in 1997. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,599 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,599 acres, mapped by digitized from hardcopy orthophoto quad. Middle of the perimeter, 36.236, -104.002.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,599 acres
State
New Mexico
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
Note on the perimeter
Estimated perimeter

Other large fires in New Mexico in 199712

FireAcresStartCause
Perez Fire38,000Mar 16, 1997
Lilly Fire25,000Apr 27, 1997Natural
Horton Fire25,000Mar 3, 1997
Caprock Fire10,240Jan 3, 1997
Unnamed Fire9,427Mar 7, 1997
Garita Fire8,000Mar 13, 1997
Rabbit Fire7,600
Langstroth Fire5,800
CR-50 Fire5,760Jun 2, 1997
Rinker Fire5,200Mar 24, 1997
Rocky Fire4,000Apr 21, 1997Natural
Ubar Fire3,220Jan 30, 1997

Every fire of 1997 New Mexico fire history

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. 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.