Spruce Fire
The Spruce Fire burned 5,719 acres in New Mexico, in 2003. It was discovered on July 11, 2003, and contained on September 2, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,719 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2003
- Contained
- September 2, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,500 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.300, -108.734.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,719 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,500 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,619 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2003, 7:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 2, 2003, 10:00 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
- Spruce Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2003-NMGNF-000139
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3330310875120030711
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-385756
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire managed as a Type II Incident.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dry Lake Complex (Dry Lakes) Fire | 65,000 | May 31, 2003 | Natural |
| 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 |
| 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.