Rose Fire
The Rose Fire burned 1,200 acres in Greenlee County, Arizona, in 2004. It was discovered on May 17, 2004, and contained on May 24, 2004. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- May 17, 2004
- Contained
- May 24, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,380 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.424, -109.399.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,380 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 884 acres
- Discovered
- May 17, 2004, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 24, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZASF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2004-AZASF-000020
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3342010937820040517
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-402994
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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 Arizona in 200412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Fire | 119,500 | Jun 24, 2004 | Natural |
| Nutall Complex (Nutall) Fire | 29,400 | Jun 26, 2004 | Natural |
| Jacket Fire | 17,219 | Jun 22, 2004 | Natural |
| Kp Fire | 16,625 | May 17, 2004 | Human |
| Three Forks Fire | 7,905 | Jun 8, 2004 | Human |
| Citrus Fire | 5,243 | Mar 30, 2004 | Human |
| High Gates Fire | 4,876 | May 23, 2004 | |
| Webber Fire | 4,311 | Mar 29, 2004 | Human |
| Blanco Fire | 3,997 | May 24, 2004 | |
| Camp 36 Wfu Fire | 3,052 | Aug 8, 2004 | Natural |
| Upshaw Fire | 2,000 | Jun 28, 2004 | Natural |
| Low Mountain Fire | 1,759 | Jun 29, 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.