Att Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Fire | 220,000 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Huckabee Fire | 98,168 | Apr 30, 2008 | Human |
| Highway 322 Fire | 67,500 | Mar 14, 2008 | Human |
| Porter Fire | 51,400 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Hughes Ranch Fire | 43,241 | Jun 4, 2008 | Human |
| Eighty-Two Fire | 33,037 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Snyder Complex | 28,625 | Feb 23, 2008 | Human |
| Burns Ranch Fire | 25,600 | Mar 18, 2008 | Human |
| Cathedral Fire | 23,000 | Apr 24, 2008 | Natural |
| Silver Fire | 20,200 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Cotulla Fire | 19,000 | Feb 2, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 18,000 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
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.