Wildfires of 2005

Ok State Line Fire

2005Cimarron County, New MexicoWildfire

The Ok State Line Fire burned 6,080 acres in Cimarron County, New Mexico, in 2005. It was discovered on December 13, 2005, and contained on December 13, 2005. The cause was recorded as smoking.

Size
6,080 acres
Discovered
December 13, 2005
Contained
December 13, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 6,083 acres, mapped by digitized from hardcopy orthophoto quad. Point of origin as reported, 36.570, -103.000.

The record

Reported final size
6,080 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,083 acres
Discovered
December 13, 2005, 12:05 p.m. local time
Contained
December 13, 2005, 5:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Smoking
State
New Mexico
County
Cimarron County
Land ownership at origin
State or Private
Reporting unit
Cibola National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMCIF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2005-NMCIF-000145
Fire occurrence record
FS-1430655
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad

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

FireAcresStartCause
Black Range Complex Wfu Fire77,000May 29, 2005Natural
Range Fire26,000Nov 30, 2005Human
Gladstone Fire12,350Apr 13, 2005Human
Fork Wfu Fire11,936May 29, 2005Natural
Johnson Wfu Fire11,611Jun 12, 2005Natural
Continental Fire5,122Jun 2, 2005Natural
Pine Canyon Fire3,922Sep 17, 2005Human
Double V V Fire2,500Jul 24, 2005Human
Btr Oil Field 3 2007 Fire1,976Mar 18, 2005
Hisel Fire1,900Jul 7, 2005Human
Lumpee Fire1,800Nov 30, 2005Human
East Fire1,450Aug 3, 2005Human

Every fire of 2005 New Mexico fire history

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. 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.