Coyote Fire
The Coyote Fire burned 2,585 acres in Catron County, New Mexico, in 1999. It was discovered on March 10, 1999, and contained on March 10, 1999. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 2,585 acres
- Discovered
- March 10, 1999
- Contained
- March 10, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,184 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.568, -108.134.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,585 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,184 acres
- Discovered
- March 10, 1999, 9:37 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 10, 1999, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Catron County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Las Cruces Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3358610816919990310
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-1249
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire scar is not easy to delineate in the dNBR image.
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 | |
| North Fort Fire | 2,500 | Sep 7, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,428 | Mar 5, 1999 | |
| Popcorn Fire | 2,247 | ||
| Telephone Fire | 2,208 | May 13, 1999 | Human |
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.