Unit 29 Fire
The Unit 29 Fire burned 1,205 acres in New Mexico, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to June 16, 1998.
- Size
- 1,205 acres
- Ignition
- June 16, 1998
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,205 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.817, -106.343.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,205 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 609 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 16, 1998
- State
- New Mexico
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- NMBAP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1998-NMBAP-009830
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3581710634319980616
- 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 New Mexico in 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckeye Fire | 16,080 | Jun 16, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,987 | Nov 13, 1998 | |
| Burleson Fire | 11,002 | May 3, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,350 | May 5, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,774 | May 5, 1998 | |
| Keith Fire | 6,000 | ||
| Rinker Fire | 5,199 | ||
| Oso Fire | 5,185 | Jun 27, 1998 | Human |
| Heather Fire | 5,000 | Jul 14, 1998 | |
| Bs Fire | 4,404 | Sep 28, 1998 | Natural |
| Beard Fire | 4,323 | May 10, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,540 | Jul 15, 1998 |
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. 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.