Chitty Fire
The Chitty Fire burned 15,000 acres in Greenlee County, Arizona, in 2007. It was discovered on June 30, 2007, and contained on July 12, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 15,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 2007
- Contained
- July 12, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,720 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.570, -109.381.
The record
- Reported final size
- 15,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,720 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 15,050 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 2007, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 2007, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Greenlee County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZASF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-AZASF-000090
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3355910935720070630
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1456990
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Rock Gulch Fire | 21,105 | Jul 5, 2007 | Natural |
| Radio Fire | 9,076 | Jul 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Wilkins Fire | 7,762 | Sep 12, 2007 | Natural |
| Frontera Fire | 7,041 | ||
| Slide Fire | 6,000 | Jul 5, 2007 | Natural |
| Alambre Fire | 5,900 | Jul 7, 2007 | Natural |
| Roosevelt Wfu Fire | 5,240 | Jul 19, 2007 | Natural |
| Birdie Fire | 5,016 | Jul 6, 2007 | Natural |
| Promontory Fire | 4,044 | May 13, 2007 | Human |
| Blue River Fire | 3,615 | May 27, 2007 | Human |
| Dutch Fire | 3,148 | Sep 5, 2007 | Natural |
| Squaw Fire | 2,800 | Jul 2, 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.