Newcastle Fire
The Newcastle Fire burned 1,240 acres in Garfield County, Colorado, in 2007. It was discovered on June 18, 2007, and contained on July 4, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,240 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 2007
- Contained
- July 4, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,270 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.575, -107.474.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,240 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,270 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,313 acres
- Discovered
- June 18, 2007, 1:40 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 4, 2007, 4:01 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Garfield County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Northwest District, Grand Junction
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COGFX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-COGJD-000107
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3959010746220070618
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-550389
- Note on the perimeter
- Full Suppression, aka Newcastle
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 |
| Bear Fire | 1,550 | Jul 8, 2007 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,354 | Sep 29, 2007 | |
| 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.