Wildfires of 1998

Nr Complex

1998ArizonaWildland fire use

The Nr Complex burned 4,957 acres in Arizona, in 1998. It was discovered on August 3, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,957 acres
Discovered
August 3, 1998
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,067 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.214, -112.091.

The record

Reported final size
4,957 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,067 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,842 acres
Discovered
August 3, 1998, 7:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
Land ownership at origin
National Park Service
Reporting unit
Grand Canyon National Park
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
AZGCP
Part of
Nr Complex
Incident type
Wildland fire use
Unique fire identifier
1998-AZGCP-000071
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3620711210519980803
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-251145
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
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
Unnamed Fire1,739Jun 2, 1998

Every fire of 1998 Arizona 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. 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.