Far Draw Wfu Fire
The Far Draw Wfu Fire burned 1,105 acres in Dolores County, Colorado, in 2005. It was discovered on September 11, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,105 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,168 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.711, -108.638.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,105 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,168 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,057 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 2005, 5:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Dolores County
- Reporting unit
- San Juan National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COSJF
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3771710862320050911
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2005_CO-SJF-000290
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Drawn from maps found in office
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 Colorado in 20057
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mason Fire | 11,357 | Jul 7, 2005 | Natural |
| Pack Trail Wfu Fire | 2,896 | Jul 7, 2005 | Natural |
| Trail East Fire | 2,381 | Jul 14, 2005 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Jul 24, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Jul 24, 2005 | |
| Rio Blanco Wfu Fire | 1,182 | Jun 23, 2005 | Natural |
| Carrizo Complex | 411 | Jul 24, 2005 | 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.