Green Creek Fire
The Green Creek Fire burned 4,400 acres in Routt County, Colorado, in 2002. It was discovered on July 14, 2002, and contained on October 3, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,400 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2002
- Contained
- October 3, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,342 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.308, -106.692.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,342 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,125 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2002, 11:48 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 3, 2002, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Routt County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Part of
- Lost Green Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4029910667420020714
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-378702
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hayman Fire | 137,760 | Jun 8, 2002 | Human |
| Missionary Ridge Fire | 73,121 | Jun 9, 2002 | Human |
| James and John Fire | 33,000 | Jun 2, 2002 | Natural |
| Burn Canyon Fire | 30,292 | Jul 9, 2002 | Natural |
| Big Fish Fire | 17,056 | Jul 19, 2002 | Natural |
| Mt. Zirkel Complex (Hinman) Fire | 16,852 | Jul 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Cheyenne County Fire | 15,000 | May 31, 2002 | Natural |
| Mt. Zirkel Complex (Burn Ridge) Fire | 14,403 | Aug 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Spring Creek Fire | 13,493 | Jun 22, 2002 | Natural |
| Coal Seam Fire | 12,209 | Jun 8, 2002 | Human |
| Lincoln County Complex | 10,000 | May 31, 2002 | Natural |
| Million Fire | 9,294 | Jun 19, 2002 | Human |
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.