Peppin Fire
The Peppin Fire burned 64,488 acres in Lincoln County, New Mexico, in 2004. It was discovered on May 15, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 64,488 acres
- Discovered
- May 15, 2004
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 60,500 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.601, -105.433.
The record
- Reported final size
- 64,488 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 60,500 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 67,360 acres
- Discovered
- May 15, 2004, 12:50 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Lincoln County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Lincoln National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMLNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2004-NMLNF-000004
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3361010535120040515
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1428795
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- All data gathered from Harry P., no fire report to date
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baseball Fire | 22,324 | ||
| Sedgwick Fire | 8,595 | Jun 12, 2004 | Human |
| Granny Wfu Fire | 5,649 | Jun 25, 2004 | Natural |
| Lookout Fire | 5,280 | May 21, 2004 | Human |
| 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.