Wildfires of 2006

Secret Fire

2006ArizonaWildfire

The Secret Fire burned 4,541 acres in Arizona, in 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to June 8, 2006.

Size
4,541 acres
Ignition
June 8, 2006

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,541 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.136, -114.349.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,541 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,102 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 8, 2006
State
Arizona
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
AZCRD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-AZCRD-060814
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3513611434920060608
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
GPS-Flight

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
Brins Fire4,317Jun 18, 2006Human
February Fire4,243Feb 6, 2006Human
Montezuma 1 Fire4,191Feb 27, 2006Human
Jacob Fire3,339Jun 30, 2006Natural

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. 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.