Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,100 acres in Cheyenne County, Colorado, in 2003. It was discovered on October 10, 2003.
- Size
- 2,100 acres
- Discovered
- October 10, 2003
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,531 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.701, -103.124.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,100 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,531 acres
- Discovered
- October 10, 2003
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Cheyenne County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3871810307320031010
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-CO0301989
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| GarCo 5 Fire | 5,292 | Jul 8, 2003 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Aug 25, 2003 | |
| Overland Fire | 3,869 | Oct 30, 2003 | Human |
| Hamilton Fire | 3,211 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 3,000 | Jul 19, 2003 | |
| Moccasin Fire | 2,744 | Jul 15, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,500 | Dec 14, 2003 | |
| Bolt Fire | 2,160 | Jul 26, 2003 | Natural |
| Hamilton Fire | 2,009 | Jul 19, 2003 | Natural |
| Bear Creek Wfu Fire | 1,869 | Jul 6, 2003 | Natural |
| Yankee Gulch Fire | 1,503 | Jun 16, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Jul 19, 2003 |
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.