Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 3,000 acres in Torrance County, New Mexico, in 2008. It was discovered on June 22, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to June 24, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 22, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,350 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.938, -105.400.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,350 acres
- Discovered
- June 22, 2008, 6:30 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 24, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Torrance County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Bernalillo District
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3494710535420080624
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2008_NM-N6S-000278
- Note on the perimeter
- Small portion of fire still burning. Only image available. Fire is not visible on next image.
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
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.