Bear Fire
The Bear Fire burned 1,550 acres in Colorado, in 2007. It was discovered on July 8, 2007, and contained on July 12, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,550 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2007
- Contained
- July 12, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,599 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.198, -108.268.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,550 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,599 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,292 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2007, 2:45 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 2007, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Southern Ute Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COSUA
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-COSJD-000178
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3718510826720070708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-543803
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 Colorado in 20076
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lone Tree Fire | 3,536 | Aug 22, 2007 | Natural |
| Mud Springs Fire | 2,240 | Aug 13, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,354 | Sep 29, 2007 | |
| Newcastle Fire | 1,240 | Jun 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Bradshaw Fire | 1,132 | Nov 7, 2007 | Human |
| Whittaker Flats Fire | 1,016 | Jun 17, 2007 | 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.