Ok State Line Fire
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
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. 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.