Buzzard Fire
The Buzzard Fire burned 1,897 acres in Mohave County, Arizona, in 2005. It was discovered on June 30, 2005, and contained on July 4, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,897 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 2005
- Contained
- July 4, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,034 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.947, -112.165.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,897 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,034 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,897 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 2005, 3:42 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 4, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Arizona Strip Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AZASD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-AZASD-000009
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3695411214620050630
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-501781
- Note on the perimeter
- Helicopter; legacy data from AZASD - additional attribute QA/QC required 20160412
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.