Tower Fire
The Tower Fire burned 4,063 acres in Arizona, in 2001. It was discovered on August 29, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,063 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,835 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.255, -112.237.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,063 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,835 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,065 acres
- Discovered
- August 29, 2001, 9:54 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- AZGCP
- Part of
- Swamp Ridge Complex
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 2001-AZGCP-000065
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3624811222920010829
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-251406
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 86,961 | Aug 6, 2001 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,208 | Aug 6, 2001 | |
| Pine Fire | 7,400 | Jul 2, 2001 | Natural |
| Lamedeer Fire | 5,902 | Oct 12, 2001 | |
| Blanco Fire | 5,799 | Jun 5, 2001 | |
| Swamp Rdg Fire | 3,290 | Aug 17, 2001 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,967 | Jun 25, 2001 | |
| Vista Fire | 2,739 | Jul 15, 2001 | Natural |
| Nb Order Fire | 2,374 | May 24, 2001 | |
| Round Hill 1 Fire | 2,363 | Jun 16, 2001 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,329 | Oct 24, 2001 | |
| Lindberg Fire | 2,092 | May 28, 2001 |
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.