Wildfires of 1998

Chimenea Prescribed Fire

1998ArizonaPrescribed fire

The Chimenea Prescribed Fire burned 1,994 acres in Arizona, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to October 8, 1998.

Size
1,994 acres
Ignition
October 8, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,994 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.200, -110.577.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,994 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,199 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 8, 1998
State
Arizona
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
AZSAP
Incident type
Prescribed fire
Unique fire identifier
1998-AZSAP-9813
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3220011057719981008
MTBS assessment
Extended
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 Arizona in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire38,811Jul 11, 1998
Unnamed Fire8,527Jul 11, 1998
Nr Complex4,957Aug 3, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire4,913Jul 27, 1998
Unnamed Fire3,638Jun 27, 1998
Unnamed Fire3,241Jun 18, 1998
Summit 1 Fire2,849Oct 1, 1998
Topeka Fire2,532Jun 9, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire2,500Aug 7, 1998Natural
Tonto Fire2,412Oct 13, 1998
South Dike Fire2,200Jul 5, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire2,053May 26, 1998

Every fire of 1998 Arizona fire history

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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. 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.