Silverweed Fire
The Silverweed Fire burned 1,923 acres in Chaves County, New Mexico, in 2007. It was discovered on March 15, 2007, and contained on March 15, 2007. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,923 acres
- Discovered
- March 15, 2007
- Contained
- March 15, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,474 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.852, -104.757.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,923 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,474 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,922 acres
- Discovered
- March 15, 2007, 2:28 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 15, 2007, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Chaves County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Roswell Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-NMROD-539553
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3383510479120070315
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-539553
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Six Fire | 18,000 | Nov 18, 2007 | Human |
| Nm 467 Fire | 15,000 | Oct 17, 2007 | Human |
| Hl Wfu Fire | 10,131 | Jun 22, 2007 | Natural |
| Woodland Fire | 8,000 | Jun 22, 2007 | Natural |
| Angel Fire | 7,600 | Aug 22, 2007 | Natural |
| Ojo Peak Fire | 6,969 | Nov 19, 2007 | Human |
| Canyon Fire | 6,156 | ||
| NM113-MM19 Fire | 5,987 | Mar 19, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,575 | Dec 25, 2007 | |
| Chitum Fire | 3,150 | Jun 27, 2007 | Natural |
| Highway Fire | 3,000 | Apr 21, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,000 | Jun 29, 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.