I-Do Fire
The I-Do Fire burned 3,300 acres in New Mexico, in 1999. It was discovered on February 13, 1999.
- Size
- 3,300 acres
- Discovered
- February 13, 1999
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,773 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.049, -104.329.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,300 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,773 acres
- Discovered
- February 13, 1999
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- New Mexico State Forestry Division
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3508710433019990213
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NM99-40850409X
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 |
| 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 | ||
| 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.