Wildfires of 2008

Distillery Fire

2008Pima County, ArizonaWildfire

The Distillery Fire burned 7,950 acres in Pima County, Arizona, in 2008. It was discovered on June 21, 2008, and contained on July 1, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
7,950 acres
Discovered
June 21, 2008
Contained
July 1, 2008
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,535 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.062, -110.529.

The record

Reported final size
7,950 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,535 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,562 acres
Discovered
June 21, 2008, 4:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 1, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
County
Pima County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Coronado National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3207011051220080621
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1470069

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 200812

FireAcresStartCause
Marteen Wfu Fire10,789Aug 7, 2008Natural
Lane 2 Fire9,629Jun 28, 2008Human
Jack Wood Wfu Fire8,609Jun 23, 2008Natural
Hot Air Fire8,300Jun 22, 2008Natural
White Tank Fire8,135Jun 23, 2008Natural
Unnamed Fire6,855May 21, 2008
Ethan Fire6,660Jun 25, 2008Natural
Alamo Fire5,070Apr 18, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire3,940Jul 15, 2008
Meadow Fire3,876Feb 14, 2008Human
Eagle Fire3,852Apr 22, 2008Human
Frye Mesa Fire3,094May 20, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 Arizona fire history

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.