Box Canyon Fire
The Box Canyon Fire burned 6,476 acres in Arizona, in 1999. It was discovered on June 18, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,476 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 1999
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,915 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.170, -110.678.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,476 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,915 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,482 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 1999, 1:15 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Saguaro National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- AZSAP
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-AZSAP-009910
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3217611066119990618
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-264201
- 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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jumpspring Fire | 16,816 | May 28, 1999 | Natural |
| Harcuvar Fire | 15,980 | May 27, 1999 | Natural |
| Chiva Fire | 10,615 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 5,751 | Oct 28, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,736 | Oct 28, 1999 | |
| Hot Spring Fire | 4,735 | May 20, 1999 | |
| Rainbow Fire | 4,383 | Jun 11, 1999 | Human |
| High Fire | 4,334 | Apr 14, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,210 | Oct 28, 1999 | |
| Arrastra Fire | 2,400 | Jun 18, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,393 | Nov 13, 1999 | |
| Garcia Fire | 2,269 | Apr 16, 1999 |
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.