Wildfires of 2009

Guthrie Fire

2009Pima County, ArizonaWildfire

The Guthrie Fire burned 4,852 acres in Pima County, Arizona, in 2009. It was discovered on July 11, 2009, and contained on July 24, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,852 acres
Discovered
July 11, 2009
Contained
July 24, 2009
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,231 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.912, -110.661.

The record

Reported final size
4,852 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,231 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,857 acres
Discovered
July 11, 2009, 5:00 a.m. local time
Contained
July 24, 2009, 11:30 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
County
Pima County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Coronado National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3234511064520090711
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1479835

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 Arizona in 200912

FireAcresStartCause
Elk Horn Fire23,668Jun 11, 2009Human
Bear Canyon Fire20,029Jul 14, 2009Natural
Hog Fire16,802Mar 1, 2009Human
Wildhorse Complex13,790Jul 21, 2009Natural
San Juan Fire9,200Jul 14, 2009Human
Unnamed Fire8,864Apr 14, 2009
Cross Fire7,718Jul 1, 2009Natural
Chevlon Complex (Weimer) Fire6,399Jul 27, 2009Natural
Reno Fire6,322Sep 7, 2009Natural
Melendrez Pass Fire5,791May 29, 2009Natural
Aspen Fire4,276Jul 29, 2009Natural
Canelo Fire4,208May 6, 2009Human

Every fire of 2009 Arizona fire history

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.