Pasco Fire
The Pasco Fire burned 95,000 acres in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, in 2009. It was discovered on June 10, 2009, and contained on June 25, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 95,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2009
- Contained
- June 25, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 104,041 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.356, -108.862.
The record
- Reported final size
- 95,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 104,041 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 92,617 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2009, 3:02 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 25, 2009, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Hidalgo County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Las Cruces Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-NMLCD-591964
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3138510881120090610
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-591964
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Driven
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cato Fire | 55,080 | Jun 10, 2009 | Natural |
| Four Mile Fire | 29,952 | Apr 23, 2009 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 25,747 | Mar 30, 2009 | Human |
| Diamond Fire | 22,000 | May 28, 2009 | Natural |
| Picacho Fire | 16,141 | Mar 4, 2009 | Human |
| Vista Fire | 13,969 | May 15, 2009 | Natural |
| East Transwestern Fire | 13,500 | May 15, 2009 | Natural |
| Fresquez 2 Fire | 10,094 | May 15, 2009 | Natural |
| Willow Fire | 9,000 | May 30, 2009 | Natural |
| Skeleton Fire | 8,591 | May 30, 2009 | Natural |
| Black Butte Fire | 7,836 | Aug 4, 2009 | Natural |
| Meason Fire | 7,055 | Jun 1, 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.