Wildfires of 2008

Att Fire

2008Dallam County, TexasWildfire

The Att Fire burned 1,675 acres in Dallam County, Texas, in 2008. It was discovered on October 4, 2008, and contained on October 6, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,675 acres
Discovered
October 4, 2008
Contained
October 6, 2008
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,674 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.278, -102.474.

The record

Reported final size
1,675 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,674 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,657 acres
Discovered
October 4, 2008, 3:30 p.m. local time
Contained
October 6, 2008, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Texas
County
Dallam County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Cibola National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMCIF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2008-NMCIF-000059
MTBS fire identifier
TX3630910246920081004
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-1473424
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other

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 Texas in 200812

FireAcresStartCause
Glass Fire220,000Feb 25, 2008Human
Huckabee Fire98,168Apr 30, 2008Human
Highway 322 Fire67,500Mar 14, 2008Human
Porter Fire51,400Mar 14, 2008
Hughes Ranch Fire43,241Jun 4, 2008Human
Eighty-Two Fire33,037Mar 14, 2008
Snyder Complex28,625Feb 23, 2008Human
Burns Ranch Fire25,600Mar 18, 2008Human
Cathedral Fire23,000Apr 24, 2008Natural
Silver Fire20,200Feb 25, 2008Human
Cotulla Fire19,000Feb 2, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire18,000Feb 25, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 Texas fire history

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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.