Wildfires of 2003

Unnamed Fire

2003Cheyenne County, ColoradoWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
GarCo 5 Fire5,292Jul 8, 2003Human
Unnamed Fire4,000Aug 25, 2003
Overland Fire3,869Oct 30, 2003Human
Hamilton Fire3,211
Unnamed Fire3,000Jul 19, 2003
Moccasin Fire2,744Jul 15, 2003Natural
Unnamed Fire2,500Dec 14, 2003
Bolt Fire2,160Jul 26, 2003Natural
Hamilton Fire2,009Jul 19, 2003Natural
Bear Creek Wfu Fire1,869Jul 6, 2003Natural
Yankee Gulch Fire1,503Jun 16, 2003Natural
Unnamed Fire1,500Jul 19, 2003

Every fire of 2003 Colorado fire history

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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.