Guacamole Fire
The Guacamole Fire burned 2,600 acres in Maricopa County, Arizona, in 2005. It was discovered on August 7, 2005, and contained on August 22, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,600 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 2005
- Contained
- August 22, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,399 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.056, -113.080.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,399 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 2005, 5:17 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 22, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Maricopa County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Phoenix District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3307611305920050807
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-507998
- Note on the perimeter
- difficulty finding 2 imgs to pair due to fire in high flood water / ag area.
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 6, from August 8, 2005 to August 22, 2005. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 7
- Injuries
- 1
- Most personnel assigned
- 120 on August 9, 2005
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,350 acres, on August 9, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2005 | 250 | |
| Aug 9, 2005 | 1,600 | +1,350 |
| Aug 10, 2005 | 2,600 | +1,000 |
| Aug 12, 2005 | 3,000 | |
| Aug 17, 2005 | 4,000 | |
| Aug 22, 2005 | 4,000 |
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
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.