Potato Fire
The Potato Fire burned 6,262 acres in Navajo County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on June 6, 2006, and contained on July 10, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,262 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2006
- Contained
- July 10, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,946 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.494, -110.744.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,262 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,946 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,166 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2006, 2:10 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 10, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Navajo County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZASF
- Part of
- Potato Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AZASF-000069
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3454711071420060608
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1440021
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Fire | 3,339 | Jun 30, 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.