Beaverhead Fire
The Beaverhead Fire burned 1,497 acres in Greenlee County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on June 15, 2006, and contained on June 26, 2006. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 1,497 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2006
- Contained
- June 26, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,420 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.675, -109.258.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,497 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,420 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,409 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2006, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 26, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZASF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AZASF-000087
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3368810924320060615
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1438110
- Perimeter map method
- Photogrammetric Compilation
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 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warm Fire | 58,630 | Jun 8, 2006 | Natural |
| Warm Wfu Fire | 19,515 | ||
| Black Mountain Complex | 12,638 | Jun 8, 2006 | Natural |
| Potato Fire | 6,262 | Jun 6, 2006 | Natural |
| Cottonwood 3 Fire | 5,923 | Jul 25, 2006 | Natural |
| Gran Fire | 5,245 | Jul 21, 2006 | Natural |
| Tiger Fire | 5,143 | Jun 29, 2006 | Natural |
| Cibola Fire | 4,600 | Jul 16, 2006 | Natural |
| Secret Fire | 4,541 | Jun 8, 2006 | |
| Brins Fire | 4,317 | Jun 18, 2006 | Human |
| February Fire | 4,243 | Feb 6, 2006 | Human |
| Montezuma 1 Fire | 4,191 | Feb 27, 2006 | 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. 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.