Wildfires of 1999

T-Four Fire

1999New MexicoWildfire

The T-Four Fire burned 5,000 acres in New Mexico, in 1999. It was discovered on February 17, 1999.

Size
5,000 acres
Discovered
February 17, 1999
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,285 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.265, -103.993.

The record

Reported final size
5,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,285 acres
Discovered
February 17, 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
NM3521210401419990217
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
NM99-40870413X

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

FireAcresStartCause
Garcia Fire23,680May 7, 1999Natural
Hermosa Fire6,466Jun 2, 1999
Bootheel Fire3,520Feb 25, 1999
Snider Fire3,500Feb 6, 1999
La Jara Fire3,382Jun 3, 1999Human
I-Do Fire3,300Feb 13, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,852Oct 12, 1999
Coyote Fire2,585Mar 10, 1999Human
North Fort Fire2,500Sep 7, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,428Mar 5, 1999
Popcorn Fire2,247
Telephone Fire2,208May 13, 1999Human

Every fire of 1999 New Mexico fire history

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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.