Wildfires of 1998

Rinker Fire

1998New MexicoWildfire

The Rinker Fire burned 5,199 acres in New Mexico, in 1998. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
5,199 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 5,199 acres, mapped by digitized from hardcopy orthophoto quad. Middle of the perimeter, 36.455, -103.032.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
5,199 acres
State
New Mexico
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMCIF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1998-NMCIF-079803
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
Note on the perimeter
Estimated perimeter

Other large fires in New Mexico in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Buckeye Fire16,080Jun 16, 1998
Unnamed Fire12,987Nov 13, 1998
Burleson Fire11,002May 3, 1998
Unnamed Fire10,350May 5, 1998
Unnamed Fire7,774May 5, 1998
Keith Fire6,000
Oso Fire5,185Jun 27, 1998Human
Heather Fire5,000Jul 14, 1998
Bs Fire4,404Sep 28, 1998Natural
Beard Fire4,323May 10, 1998
Unnamed Fire3,540Jul 15, 1998
Hy Lonesome Fire3,300Feb 24, 1998

Every fire of 1998 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.