Wildfires of 2005

Sh Ranch Complex

2005ArizonaWildfire

The Sh Ranch Complex burned 32,126 acres in Arizona, in 2005. It was discovered on July 17, 2005, and contained on July 17, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
32,126 acres
Discovered
July 17, 2005
Contained
July 17, 2005
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 22,638 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.456, -113.002.

The record

Reported final size
32,126 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
22,638 acres
Discovered
July 17, 2005, 2:53 p.m. local time
Contained
July 17, 2005, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
Reporting unit
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
Agency
State or local agency
Part of
Sh Ranch Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3464111299420050717
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2005AZAZS-AZ-050848

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 Arizona in 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Cave Creek Complex248,310Jun 21, 2005Natural
Edge Complex72,000Jul 16, 2005Natural
Goldwater Fire58,536Jun 16, 2005Human
Cow Fire44,707Jul 21, 2005Natural
Tweedy Point Fire35,639Jun 28, 2005Natural
Mt Bangs Complex28,177Jun 24, 2005Natural
King Valley Fire26,000Oct 1, 2005Human
Florida Fire23,183Jul 7, 2005Natural
Perkins Complex22,477Jun 22, 2005Natural
Tank Complex20,551Jul 19, 2005Human
Sand Tank Complex (Sand Tank) Fire17,131Jun 29, 2005Human
Three Fire Complex (Three) Fire16,100Jun 21, 2005Natural

Every fire of 2005 Arizona fire history

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.