Continental Fire
The Continental Fire burned 5,122 acres in Catron County, New Mexico, in 2005. It was discovered on June 2, 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to May 28, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,122 acres
- Discovered
- June 2, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,989 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.480, -107.843.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,122 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,989 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,993 acres
- Discovered
- June 2, 2005, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 28, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Catron County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Part of
- Black Range Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-NMGNF-000029
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3348010784320050528
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1428663
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
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 New Mexico in 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Range Complex Wfu Fire | 77,000 | May 29, 2005 | Natural |
| Range Fire | 26,000 | Nov 30, 2005 | Human |
| Gladstone Fire | 12,350 | Apr 13, 2005 | Human |
| Fork Wfu Fire | 11,936 | May 29, 2005 | Natural |
| Johnson Wfu Fire | 11,611 | Jun 12, 2005 | Natural |
| Ok State Line Fire | 6,080 | Dec 13, 2005 | Human |
| Pine Canyon Fire | 3,922 | Sep 17, 2005 | Human |
| Double V V Fire | 2,500 | Jul 24, 2005 | Human |
| Btr Oil Field 3 2007 Fire | 1,976 | Mar 18, 2005 | |
| Hisel Fire | 1,900 | Jul 7, 2005 | Human |
| Lumpee Fire | 1,800 | Nov 30, 2005 | Human |
| East Fire | 1,450 | Aug 3, 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.