Dominguez Fire
The Dominguez Fire burned 2,599 acres in Mesa County, Colorado, in 2009. It was discovered on July 11, 2009, and contained on August 30, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,599 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2009
- Contained
- August 30, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,240 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.739, -108.576.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,599 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,240 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,602 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2009, 5:33 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 2009, 4:22 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Mesa County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COGMF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3872510858620090711
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1484381
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire Use; No Unique Fire Identifier in FireStat
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 Colorado in 20099
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Narraguinnep Fire | 7,300 | Aug 7, 2009 | Natural |
| Quarry Fire | 6,328 | Mar 3, 2009 | Human |
| Mellen Fire | 3,603 | Aug 7, 2009 | Natural |
| Old Stage Fire | 3,008 | Jan 7, 2009 | |
| Bradfield Fire | 2,400 | Aug 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Allred Fire | 2,068 | Aug 3, 2009 | Natural |
| Spring Creek Fire | 1,340 | Jul 28, 2009 | Human |
| Spring Fire | 979 | Aug 30, 2009 | Natural |
| Tabaguache Creek Fire | 935 | Aug 29, 2009 | Natural |
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.