Warm Fire
The Warm Fire burned 58,630 acres in Coconino County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on June 8, 2006, and contained on August 9, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 58,630 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 2006
- Contained
- August 9, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 58,223 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.660, -112.190.
The record
- Reported final size
- 58,630 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 58,223 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 39,112 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 2006, 6:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 9, 2006, 7:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Coconino County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Kaibab National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZKNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AZKNF-000143
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3662511217320060608
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1439712
- 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 Wfu Fire | 19,515 | ||
| Black Mountain Complex | 12,638 | Jun 8, 2006 | Natural |
| Potato Fire | 6,262 | Jun 6, 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.