High Meadows Fire
The High Meadows Fire burned 10,800 acres in Colorado, in 2000. It was discovered on June 12, 2000, and contained on June 25, 2000. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 10,800 acres
- Discovered
- June 12, 2000
- Contained
- June 25, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,604 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.412, -105.395.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,800 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,604 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,761 acres
- Discovered
- June 12, 2000, 11:45 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 25, 2000, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Colorado
- Reporting unit
- Pike and San Isabel National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COPSF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3940110536120000612
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-360832
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 |
| 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 |
| Pony Fire | 3,888 | Aug 2, 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.