Mauricio Canyon Fire
The Mauricio Canyon Fire burned 3,825 acres in Las Animas County, Colorado, in 2006. It was discovered on January 6, 2006, and contained on January 24, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to January 7, 2006. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 3,825 acres
- Discovered
- January 6, 2006
- Contained
- January 24, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,368 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.392, -104.821.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,825 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,368 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,367 acres
- Discovered
- January 6, 2006, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- January 7, 2006
- Contained
- January 24, 2006, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Las Animas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Pueblo Interagency Dispatch Center
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COHUX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-CORGD-000026
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3739910480620060107
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2006_CO-HUX-00026
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From Glenda
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 Colorado in 20069
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mato Vega Fire | 13,820 | Jun 18, 2006 | Natural |
| Divide Fire | 3,550 | Jul 13, 2006 | Natural |
| Thomas Fire | 3,347 | Jun 13, 2006 | Natural |
| I 76 Fire | 3,200 | Jul 15, 2006 | |
| Bitter Brush Fire | 2,207 | Aug 22, 2006 | Natural |
| Tecolate Fire | 1,500 | May 27, 2006 | Human |
| Lion Creek Fire | 1,499 | Jun 20, 2006 | Human |
| Spring Fire | 1,403 | Jul 20, 2006 | Natural |
| Rocky Flats Fire | 992 | Apr 2, 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.