Wildfires of 2006

Wilson Fire

2006New MexicoWildfire

The Wilson Fire burned 7,756 acres in New Mexico, in 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to June 6, 2006.

Size
7,756 acres
Ignition
June 6, 2006

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,756 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.852, -108.738.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
7,756 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,550 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 6, 2006
State
New Mexico
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMGNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-NMGNF-000066
MTBS fire identifier
NM3385210873820060617
MTBS assessment
Extended
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 New Mexico in 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Mcdonald Fire92,390Mar 12, 2006Human
Bear Fire55,307Jun 19, 2006Human
Buckeye I Fire30,000Jan 1, 2006Human
Casa Fire26,525Mar 1, 2006Human
Gladstone Fire23,000Jun 15, 2006Natural
Rivera Mesa Fire16,114Jun 16, 2006Natural
Ojo Feliz Fire16,000Apr 12, 2006Human
Tatum East Fire15,000Jan 1, 2006Human
Adobe Fire12,806May 18, 2006Human
Skates Fire12,582Jun 2, 2006Natural
Clapham Fire11,520Mar 12, 2006Human
Jet Fire11,000May 21, 2006Natural

Every fire of 2006 New Mexico 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.