Old Stage Fire
The Old Stage Fire burned 3,008 acres in Boulder County, Colorado, in 2009. It was discovered on January 7, 2009.
- Size
- 3,008 acres
- Discovered
- January 7, 2009
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,156 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.099, -105.099.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,008 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,156 acres
- Discovered
- January 7, 2009, 11:30 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Boulder County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Fort Collins Interagency Dispatch Center
- Agency
- Interagency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4009910509920090107
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2009_CO-BLX-9008
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 |
| 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
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.