Wildfires of 2007

Nm 467 Fire

2007Roosevelt County, New MexicoWildfire

The Nm 467 Fire burned 15,000 acres in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, in 2007. It was discovered on October 17, 2007, and contained on October 17, 2007. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
15,000 acres
Discovered
October 17, 2007
Contained
October 17, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,244 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.221, -103.317.

The record

Reported final size
15,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,244 acres
Discovered
October 17, 2007, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
October 17, 2007
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
New Mexico
County
Roosevelt County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
New Mexico State Forestry Division
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3423510326420071017
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2007NMFDNM0259-20654

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 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Six Fire18,000Nov 18, 2007Human
Hl Wfu Fire10,131Jun 22, 2007Natural
Woodland Fire8,000Jun 22, 2007Natural
Angel Fire7,600Aug 22, 2007Natural
Ojo Peak Fire6,969Nov 19, 2007Human
Canyon Fire6,156
NM113-MM19 Fire5,987Mar 19, 2007Human
Unnamed Fire3,575Dec 25, 2007
Chitum Fire3,150Jun 27, 2007Natural
Highway Fire3,000Apr 21, 2007Human
Unnamed Fire3,000Jun 29, 2007Natural
Maddox Fire2,600Jun 19, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 New Mexico fire history

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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.