Aztec Fire
The Aztec Fire burned 1,300 acres in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in 2005. It was discovered on June 18, 2005. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,300 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,509 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.488, -110.751.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,300 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,509 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,298 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 2005, 1:08 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Coronado National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3147811074620050618
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2005-AZ-CNF-000117
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cave Creek Complex | 248,310 | Jun 21, 2005 | Natural |
| Edge Complex | 72,000 | Jul 16, 2005 | Natural |
| Goldwater Fire | 58,536 | Jun 16, 2005 | Human |
| Cow Fire | 44,707 | Jul 21, 2005 | Natural |
| Tweedy Point Fire | 35,639 | Jun 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Sh Ranch Complex | 32,126 | Jul 17, 2005 | Natural |
| Mt Bangs Complex | 28,177 | Jun 24, 2005 | Natural |
| King Valley Fire | 26,000 | Oct 1, 2005 | Human |
| Florida Fire | 23,183 | Jul 7, 2005 | Natural |
| Perkins Complex | 22,477 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Tank Complex | 20,551 | Jul 19, 2005 | Human |
| Sand Tank Complex (Sand Tank) Fire | 17,131 | Jun 29, 2005 | Human |
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.