Eldorado Fire
The Eldorado Fire burned 1,087 acres in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2000. It was discovered on September 15, 2000, and contained on September 21, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,087 acres
- Discovered
- September 15, 2000
- Contained
- September 21, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 998 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.947, -105.350.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,087 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 998 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 15, 2000, 12:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 21, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Boulder County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Royal Gorge Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3994710533820000915
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-99646
- Note on the perimeter
- Type II 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 Colorado in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bircher Fire | 23,220 | Jul 20, 2000 | Natural |
| Kiowa County Fire | 16,000 | Apr 18, 2000 | Human |
| Busterflat Fire | 11,032 | Jul 3, 2000 | Natural |
| High Meadows Fire | 10,800 | Jun 12, 2000 | Human |
| Bobcat Fire | 10,599 | Jun 12, 2000 | Human |
| Pinyon Canyon Fire | 8,871 | ||
| Winter Valley Fire | 8,603 | Jul 24, 2000 | Natural |
| Busterflat Fire | 8,494 | ||
| Mustang Ck Fire | 6,600 | Apr 18, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,554 | Sep 7, 2000 | |
| Cone Mountain Fire | 4,580 | Jul 3, 2000 | Natural |
| Scandard Fire | 4,030 | Jul 22, 2000 | Natural |
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.