Dry Lake Complex (Dry Lakes) Fire
The Dry Lake Complex (Dry Lakes) Fire burned 65,000 acres in New Mexico, in 2003. It was discovered on May 31, 2003, and contained on December 1, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 65,000 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2003
- Contained
- December 1, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 114,154 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.102, -108.402.
The record
- Reported final size
- 65,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 114,154 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 65,077 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2003, 10:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- December 1, 2003, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Part of
- Dry Lake Complex
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Moonshine, Turnbo
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2003-NMGNF-000023
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3322510843320030531
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-394003
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 38,998 | Jun 18, 2003 | |
| Boiler Fire | 34,941 | Apr 28, 2003 | Natural |
| Moonshine Fire | 27,647 | ||
| Turnbo Fire | 18,865 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 13,523 | Jun 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Molina Fire | 7,165 | Jun 22, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,561 | Jul 4, 2003 | |
| Capulin Fire | 6,529 | Jun 23, 2003 | Natural |
| Jenny Fire | 6,520 | Jun 22, 2003 | Natural |
| Spruce Fire | 5,719 | Jul 11, 2003 | Natural |
| Encebado Fire | 5,373 | Jul 4, 2003 | Natural |
| Seco Fire | 5,300 | Jun 20, 2003 | 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.