Picnic Rock Fire
The Picnic Rock Fire burned 8,908 acres in Larimer County, Colorado, in 2004. It was discovered on March 30, 2004, and contained on April 9, 2004. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 8,908 acres
- Discovered
- March 30, 2004
- Contained
- April 9, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,007 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.672, -105.230.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,908 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,007 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,006 acres
- Discovered
- March 30, 2004, 11:42 a.m. local time
- Contained
- April 9, 2004, 2:45 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Larimer County
- Reporting unit
- Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4071810523020040330
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-396355
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 20045
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greasewood Wfu Fire | 7,815 | Jun 6, 2004 | Natural |
| Campbell Fire | 4,187 | Jul 30, 2004 | Natural |
| Mcgruder Fire | 2,806 | Jul 3, 2004 | Natural |
| Well Fire | 1,116 | Aug 29, 2004 | Natural |
| Sage Brush Fire | 1,000 | Aug 31, 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.