Bloody Prescribed Fire
The Bloody Prescribed Fire burned 3,898 acres in Arizona, in 2010. It was discovered on July 10, 2010, and contained on July 29, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,898 acres
- Discovered
- July 10, 2010
- Contained
- July 29, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,951 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.209, -112.067.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,898 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,951 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,552 acres
- Discovered
- July 10, 2010, 4:19 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 29, 2010, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Phoenix District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AZPHD
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3423111202620100710
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-604277
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
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 Arizona in 201011
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schultz Fire | 15,075 | Jun 20, 2010 | Human |
| Turkey Fire | 9,005 | Nov 20, 2010 | Human |
| Rocky Fire | 3,827 | Jun 30, 2010 | Natural |
| Eagle Rock Fire | 3,474 | Jun 16, 2010 | Natural |
| Saffron Fire | 3,433 | Jun 25, 2010 | Natural |
| Horseshoe Fire | 3,401 | May 26, 2010 | Human |
| Ranger Complex (Bravo) Fire | 3,254 | Aug 21, 2010 | Natural |
| Ranger Complex | 2,200 | Jul 17, 2010 | Natural |
| Fraguita Fire | 1,914 | May 17, 2010 | Human |
| Weir Fire | 1,600 | Aug 16, 2010 | Natural |
| Tank Fire | 945 | Jul 24, 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.