Pinatosa Fire
The Pinatosa Fire burned 4,500 acres in New Mexico, in 2001. It was discovered on April 21, 2001, and contained on May 1, 2001. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 4,500 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 2001
- Contained
- May 1, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,300 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.297, -105.795.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,300 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,497 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 2001, 11:52 a.m. local time
- Contained
- May 1, 2001, 5:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Cibola National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2001-NMCIF-000008
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3420410576620010421
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-370628
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 12,275 | Jun 12, 2001 | |
| Animas Fire | 11,000 | May 4, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,849 | Oct 26, 2001 | |
| Rough Creek Fire | 7,250 | Jun 24, 2001 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,066 | Apr 15, 2001 | |
| Hobbs Fire | 3,850 | Jun 16, 2001 | Natural |
| Deep Well Fire | 3,840 | Jun 14, 2001 | Natural |
| Whitetail Fire | 3,684 | Jun 17, 2001 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,662 | Jun 12, 2001 | |
| York Fire | 3,500 | Apr 29, 2001 | Natural |
| Cease Fire | 2,000 | Sep 23, 2001 | Natural |
| Black Fire | 1,850 | Jun 21, 2001 | 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.