Mellen Fire
The Mellen Fire burned 3,603 acres in Colorado, in 2009. It was discovered on August 7, 2009, and contained on August 15, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,603 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 2009
- Contained
- August 15, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,397 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.159, -108.950.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,603 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,397 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,454 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 2009, 12:34 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 15, 2009, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Dinosaur National Monument
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COWRD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-COWRD-000365
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4020910894720090807
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-592598
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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 |
| Old Stage Fire | 3,008 | Jan 7, 2009 | |
| Dominguez Fire | 2,599 | Jul 11, 2009 | Natural |
| 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.