Antelope Fire
The Antelope Fire burned 1,185 acres in Catron County, New Mexico, in 1999. It was discovered on March 11, 1999, and contained on March 12, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,185 acres
- Discovered
- March 11, 1999
- Contained
- March 12, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,754 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.133, -108.769.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,185 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,754 acres
- Discovered
- March 11, 1999, 10:51 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 12, 1999, 6:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Catron County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Las Cruces Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3413310876919990311
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-1253
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garcia Fire | 23,680 | May 7, 1999 | Natural |
| Hermosa Fire | 6,466 | Jun 2, 1999 | |
| T-Four Fire | 5,000 | Feb 17, 1999 | |
| Bootheel Fire | 3,520 | Feb 25, 1999 | |
| Snider Fire | 3,500 | Feb 6, 1999 | |
| La Jara Fire | 3,382 | Jun 3, 1999 | Human |
| I-Do Fire | 3,300 | Feb 13, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,852 | Oct 12, 1999 | |
| Coyote Fire | 2,585 | Mar 10, 1999 | Human |
| North Fort Fire | 2,500 | Sep 7, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,428 | Mar 5, 1999 | |
| Popcorn Fire | 2,247 |
Nearby
Sources
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.