Wildfires of 2006

Willow Fire

2006Santa Cruz County, ArizonaWildfire

The Willow Fire burned 1,806 acres in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in 2006. It was discovered on June 11, 2006, and contained on June 11, 2006. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.

Size
1,806 acres
Discovered
June 11, 2006
Contained
June 11, 2006
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,919 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.445, -110.655.

The record

Reported final size
1,806 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,919 acres
Discovered
June 11, 2006, 10:30 a.m. local time
Contained
June 11, 2006, 8:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
State
Arizona
County
Santa Cruz County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Coronado National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3146811062020060611
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1446384

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.