Wildfires of 2005

TW0 Bar Fire

2005Gila County, ArizonaWildfire

The TW0 Bar Fire burned 2,093 acres in Gila County, Arizona, in 2005. It was discovered on July 19, 2005, and contained on July 25, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,093 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2005
Contained
July 25, 2005
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,070 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.551, -111.107.

The record

Reported final size
2,093 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,070 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,828 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2005, 6:05 p.m. local time
Contained
July 25, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
County
Gila County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Tonto National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZTNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2005-AZTNF-000036
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3355511110520050719
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1420230
Perimeter map method
Other Agency Digital

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
Sh Ranch Complex32,126Jul 17, 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

Every fire of 2005 Arizona 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. 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.