Stable Fire
The Stable Fire burned 1,246 acres in New Mexico, in 1999. It was discovered on October 13, 1999, and contained on October 17, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,246 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1999
- Contained
- October 17, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,590 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.834, -106.767.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,246 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,590 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,291 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1999, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 17, 1999, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Santa Fe National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMSNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-NMSNF-000065
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3583210676519991013
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-353298
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Note on the perimeter
- ESCAPED PRESCRIBED FIRE
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
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.