Wildfires of 2009

Cutler Fire

2009New MexicoWildfire

The Cutler Fire burned 920 acres in New Mexico, in 2009. It was discovered on May 12, 2009, and contained on May 12, 2009. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
920 acres
Discovered
May 12, 2009
Contained
May 12, 2009
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,056 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.726, -103.568.

The record

Reported final size
920 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,056 acres
Discovered
May 12, 2009, 1:46 p.m. local time
Contained
May 12, 2009, 8:20 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
New Mexico
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Carlsbad Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3273510355420090512
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-586545

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 200912

FireAcresStartCause
Pasco Fire95,000Jun 10, 2009Natural
Cato Fire55,080Jun 10, 2009Natural
Four Mile Fire29,952Apr 23, 2009Natural
Unnamed Fire25,747Mar 30, 2009Human
Diamond Fire22,000May 28, 2009Natural
Picacho Fire16,141Mar 4, 2009Human
Vista Fire13,969May 15, 2009Natural
East Transwestern Fire13,500May 15, 2009Natural
Fresquez 2 Fire10,094May 15, 2009Natural
Willow Fire9,000May 30, 2009Natural
Skeleton Fire8,591May 30, 2009Natural
Black Butte Fire7,836Aug 4, 2009Natural

Every fire of 2009 New Mexico fire history

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.