Wildfires of 2006

Corn Field Fire

2006Yavapai County, ArizonaWildfire

The Corn Field Fire burned 1,143 acres in Yavapai County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on May 28, 2006, and contained on May 30, 2006. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,143 acres
Discovered
May 28, 2006
Contained
May 30, 2006
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,190 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.598, -112.713.

The record

Reported final size
1,143 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,190 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,045 acres
Discovered
May 28, 2006, 11:18 a.m. local time
Contained
May 30, 2006, 7:18 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Arizona
County
Yavapai County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Prescott National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZPNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-AZPNF-000024
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3461011270620060528
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-1438410
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other
Note on the perimeter
T15N, R4W, Sec. 35

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

FireAcresStartCause
Warm Fire58,630Jun 8, 2006Natural
Warm Wfu Fire19,515
Black Mountain Complex12,638Jun 8, 2006Natural
Potato Fire6,262Jun 6, 2006Natural
Cottonwood 3 Fire5,923Jul 25, 2006Natural
Gran Fire5,245Jul 21, 2006Natural
Tiger Fire5,143Jun 29, 2006Natural
Cibola Fire4,600Jul 16, 2006Natural
Secret Fire4,541Jun 8, 2006
Brins Fire4,317Jun 18, 2006Human
February Fire4,243Feb 6, 2006Human
Montezuma 1 Fire4,191Feb 27, 2006Human

Every fire of 2006 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.