Alkali Fire
The Alkali Fire burned 7,917 acres in Moffat County, Colorado, in 2010. It was discovered on August 18, 2010, and contained on August 22, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 7,917 acres
- Discovered
- August 18, 2010
- Contained
- August 22, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,100 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.683, -108.062.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,917 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,100 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,870 acres
- Discovered
- August 18, 2010, 4:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 22, 2010, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Moffat County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Northwest District, Craig
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COMFX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-COLSD-000505
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO4066910805620100818
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-613936
- 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 Colorado in 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fourmile Canyon Fire | 6,382 | Sep 6, 2010 | Human |
| Medano Fire | 6,249 | Jun 6, 2010 | Natural |
| Beaver Fire | 2,608 | May 22, 2010 | Human |
| Dominguez Fire | 2,105 | Jul 12, 2010 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,000 | Sep 5, 2010 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Jun 21, 2010 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,452 | Jul 18, 2010 | Human |
| Cow Creek Fire | 1,200 | Jun 24, 2010 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Oct 31, 2010 | Natural |
| Logging Fire | 1,145 | Jul 20, 2010 | Natural |
| County Road 19 Fire | 1,033 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Sep 20, 2010 | 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.