Spring Creek Fire
The Spring Creek Fire burned 1,340 acres in Rio Blanco County, Colorado, in 2009. It was discovered on July 28, 2009, and contained on August 16, 2009. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,340 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2009
- Contained
- August 16, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,372 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.024, -108.598.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,340 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,372 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,340 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2009, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 16, 2009, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Rio Blanco County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Northwest District, Craig
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- CORBX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-COWRD-000300
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4001210858620090728
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-591304
- 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 |
| Mellen Fire | 3,603 | Aug 7, 2009 | Natural |
| 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 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.