Rattlesnak Fire
The Rattlesnak Fire burned 1,554 acres in Mohave County, Arizona, in 2000. It was discovered on July 25, 2000, and contained on August 2, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,554 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 2000
- Contained
- August 2, 2000
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,686 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.400, -113.684.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,554 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,686 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,427 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 2000, 12:55 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 2, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Arizona Strip Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AZASD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2000-AZASD-000687
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3640911368420000725
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-95975
- Note on the perimeter
- ; legacy data from AZASD - additional attribute QA/QC required 20160412
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 Arizona in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outlet Fire | 15,427 | May 10, 2000 | Human |
| Coon Creek Fire | 9,359 | Apr 26, 2000 | Human |
| Pumpkin Fire | 8,759 | May 25, 2000 | Natural |
| Ridge Fire | 8,690 | Jul 22, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,064 | Apr 29, 2000 | |
| Gus Fire | 5,700 | Apr 9, 2000 | Human |
| CITYHALL2 Fire | 5,200 | Jun 2, 2000 | Human |
| Deluge Fire | 3,974 | Feb 9, 2000 | |
| Lane Fire | 2,750 | May 14, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,516 | May 23, 2000 | |
| Peak Fire | 2,310 | Jul 30, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,081 | May 23, 2000 |
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.