Willow Fire
The Willow Fire burned 119,500 acres in Yavapai County, Arizona, in 2004. It was discovered on June 24, 2004, and contained on July 12, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 119,500 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2004
- Contained
- July 12, 2004
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 118,413 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.081, -111.605.
The record
- Reported final size
- 119,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 118,413 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 119,953 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2004, 4:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Tonto National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZTNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2004-AZTNF-000062
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3410911149820040624
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-400844
- Perimeter map method
- Other Agency Digital
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Snake Fire | 1,740 | May 19, 2004 |
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.