Big Spring Fire
The Big Spring Fire burned 5,478 acres in Torrance County, New Mexico, in 2008. It was discovered on June 24, 2008, and contained on July 1, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,478 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2008
- Contained
- July 1, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,050 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.771, -106.383.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,478 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,050 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,357 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2008, 7:30 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 23, 2008
- Contained
- July 1, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Torrance 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-000003
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3476310635520080623
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1460667
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- NM-CIF-290
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 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiles Complex | 67,008 | Mar 14, 2008 | Human |
| Rocky Fire | 49,092 | Jun 18, 2008 | Natural |
| Bonney Fire | 25,329 | Jun 18, 2008 | Natural |
| Four Lakes Fire | 23,000 | Apr 30, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 16,837 | Apr 5, 2008 | Human |
| Trigo Fire | 13,709 | Apr 15, 2008 | Human |
| Cholla Fire | 12,624 | Apr 7, 2008 | Human |
| Fire | 10,500 | Feb 25, 2008 | |
| Elliott Fire | 9,185 | Dec 14, 2008 | Human |
| SRR13 Fire | 7,116 | Jan 15, 2008 | |
| Eldridge Fire | 5,800 | Jun 26, 2008 | Natural |
| Jal Fire | 5,760 | Feb 25, 2008 |
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.