Bear Paw Fire
The Bear Paw Fire burned 3,075 acres in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico, in 2006. It was discovered on June 24, 2006, and contained on July 6, 2006. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 3,075 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2006
- Contained
- July 6, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,277 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.224, -106.892.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,075 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,277 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,086 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 6, 2006, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Rio Arriba County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Santa Fe National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMSNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-NMSNF-000062
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3621110689420060624
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1437129
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
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 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mcdonald Fire | 92,390 | Mar 12, 2006 | Human |
| Bear Fire | 55,307 | Jun 19, 2006 | Human |
| Buckeye I Fire | 30,000 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Casa Fire | 26,525 | Mar 1, 2006 | Human |
| Gladstone Fire | 23,000 | Jun 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Rivera Mesa Fire | 16,114 | Jun 16, 2006 | Natural |
| Ojo Feliz Fire | 16,000 | Apr 12, 2006 | Human |
| Tatum East Fire | 15,000 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Adobe Fire | 12,806 | May 18, 2006 | Human |
| Skates Fire | 12,582 | Jun 2, 2006 | Natural |
| Clapham Fire | 11,520 | Mar 12, 2006 | Human |
| Jet Fire | 11,000 | May 21, 2006 | Natural |
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.