Lookout Fire
The Lookout Fire burned 5,280 acres in Torrance County, New Mexico, in 2004. It was discovered on May 21, 2004, and contained on June 2, 2004. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 5,280 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 2004
- Contained
- June 2, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,776 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.303, -105.797.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,280 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,776 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,261 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 2004, 9:09 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 2, 2004, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Torrance County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Cibola National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2004-NMCIF-000016
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3425810579820040521
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-402781
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected 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 20046
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peppin Fire | 64,488 | May 15, 2004 | Natural |
| Baseball Fire | 22,324 | ||
| Sedgwick Fire | 8,595 | Jun 12, 2004 | Human |
| Granny Wfu Fire | 5,649 | Jun 25, 2004 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,168 | Jun 20, 2004 | |
| Rincon Wfu Fire | 3,097 | Jun 25, 2004 | 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.