Birthday Fire
The Birthday Fire burned 1,713 acres in Mohave County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on July 1, 2006, and contained on July 8, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,713 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2006
- Contained
- July 8, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,007 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.391, -113.757.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,713 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,007 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,036 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2006, 2:31 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 8, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Mohave County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Arizona Strip Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AZASD
- Part of
- Birthday Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AZASD-000006
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3640511377720060701
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-522986
- Note on the perimeter
- UC fire code = WFMI , other 4 LC case records input into FPER. rather then create individual reports for all five starts. One record was created for all starts. Complex: Birthday+Cliff+Last Chance+Dry Canyon+First 50 (+maybe earlier Rattlesnake)
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.