Little Fire
The Little Fire burned 8,800 acres in Arizona, in 2002. It was discovered on May 4, 2002. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 8,800 acres
- Discovered
- May 4, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,701 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.108, -109.307.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,800 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,701 acres
- Discovered
- May 4, 2002, 12:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Arizona
- Reporting unit
- Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3415810934820020504
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2002AZAZS-AZ-020349
- Note on the perimeter
- shrub/brush and some herbaceous growth. Difficult to match yr-to-yr ground cover.
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rodeo Fire | 259,159 | Jun 18, 2002 | Human |
| Ryan Fire | 38,179 | Apr 29, 2002 | Human |
| Bullock Fire | 30,600 | May 20, 2002 | Human |
| Walker Fire | 16,369 | Jun 12, 2002 | Human |
| Darnell Fire | 5,942 | Jun 28, 2002 | Natural |
| Trick Fire | 5,550 | Aug 21, 2002 | Natural |
| City Hall Fire | 5,312 | May 14, 2002 | Human |
| Oak Tree Fire | 4,471 | Feb 21, 2002 | Human |
| Carrizo 1 Fire | 4,033 | Jun 28, 2002 | Natural |
| Vock Cyn Fire | 3,674 | Feb 20, 2002 | |
| Packrat Complex | 3,470 | Aug 15, 2002 | Natural |
| Mustang Fire | 3,341 | Feb 23, 2002 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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.