Maes Fire
The Maes Fire burned 1,238 acres in San Miguel County, New Mexico, in 2005. It was discovered on December 1, 2005, and contained on December 4, 2005. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,238 acres
- Discovered
- December 1, 2005
- Contained
- December 4, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,346 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.652, -104.643.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,238 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,346 acres
- Discovered
- December 1, 2005, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 4, 2005
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- San Miguel County
- Reporting unit
- New Mexico State Forestry Division
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3564010468820051201
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2005NMFDNM00350505-06-40710445X
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 |
| Continental Fire | 5,122 | Jun 2, 2005 | Natural |
| 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 |
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.