Roosevelt Wfu Fire
The Roosevelt Wfu Fire burned 5,240 acres in Arizona, in 2007. It was discovered on July 19, 2007, and contained on December 17, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,240 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2007
- Contained
- December 17, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,352 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.193, -111.968.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,240 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,352 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,243 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2007, 1:27 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 17, 2007, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Grand Canyon National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- AZGCP
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-AZGCP-000063
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3618111195420070719
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-554859
- Perimeter map method
- Heads-up Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 |
| Chitty Fire | 15,000 | Jun 30, 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 |
| 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.