Wildfires of 2006

RXBURN06 Prescribed Fire

2006Yavapai County, ArizonaPrescribed fire

The RXBURN06 Prescribed Fire burned 1,200 acres in Yavapai County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on July 21, 2006, and contained on July 26, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
July 21, 2006
Contained
July 26, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,260 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.218, -112.068.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,260 acres
Discovered
July 21, 2006, 8:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 26, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
County
Yavapai County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Phoenix District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3418811209120060721
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-532912

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

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.