Whitmire Fire
The Whitmire Fire burned 4,046 acres in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, in 2008. It was discovered on May 21, 2008, and contained on May 23, 2008. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 4,046 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 2008
- Contained
- May 23, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,163 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.526, -108.977.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,046 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,163 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,063 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 2008, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 23, 2008, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Hidalgo County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Coronado National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2008-NMLCD-581124
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3155610897620080521
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1459717
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Driven
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- STATE FIRE NUMBER 08-30830902N Debris Burning
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.