Jack Wood Wfu Fire
The Jack Wood Wfu Fire burned 8,609 acres in Cochise County, Arizona, in 2008. It was discovered on June 23, 2008, and contained on June 24, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 8,609 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2008
- Contained
- June 24, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,462 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.765, -109.165.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,609 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,462 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,606 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2008, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 24, 2008, 6:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Cochise County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Coronado National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3174410915220080623
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1459811
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from June 26, 2008 to July 2, 2008. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 75 on June 26, 2008
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $170,000, in 2008 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Brush (2 feet)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 600 acres, on June 27, 2008.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2008 | 7,400 | |
| Jun 27, 2008 | 8,000 | +600 |
| Jul 2, 2008 | 8,241 |
Other large fires in Arizona in 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marteen Wfu Fire | 10,789 | Aug 7, 2008 | Natural |
| Lane 2 Fire | 9,629 | Jun 28, 2008 | Human |
| Hot Air Fire | 8,300 | Jun 22, 2008 | Natural |
| White Tank Fire | 8,135 | Jun 23, 2008 | Natural |
| Distillery Fire | 7,950 | Jun 21, 2008 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,855 | May 21, 2008 | |
| Ethan Fire | 6,660 | Jun 25, 2008 | Natural |
| Alamo Fire | 5,070 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,940 | Jul 15, 2008 | |
| Meadow Fire | 3,876 | Feb 14, 2008 | Human |
| Eagle Fire | 3,852 | Apr 22, 2008 | Human |
| Frye Mesa Fire | 3,094 | May 20, 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.