Wildfires of 2010

Weir Fire

2010Coconino County, ArizonaWildfire

The Weir Fire burned 1,600 acres in Coconino County, Arizona, in 2010. It was discovered on August 16, 2010, and contained on October 15, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,600 acres
Discovered
August 16, 2010
Contained
October 15, 2010
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,770 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.804, -111.520.

The record

Reported final size
1,600 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,770 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,597 acres
Discovered
August 16, 2010, 7:26 a.m. local time
Contained
October 15, 2010, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Arizona
County
Coconino County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Coconino National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
AZCOF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2010-AZCOF-000164
MTBS fire identifier
AZ3481411152420100816
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1492172
Perimeter map method
GPS - Uncorrected Data
Note on the perimeter
Resource Benefit Fire

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 201010

FireAcresStartCause
Schultz Fire15,075Jun 20, 2010Human
Turkey Fire9,005Nov 20, 2010Human
Rocky Fire3,827Jun 30, 2010Natural
Eagle Rock Fire3,474Jun 16, 2010Natural
Saffron Fire3,433Jun 25, 2010Natural
Horseshoe Fire3,401May 26, 2010Human
Ranger Complex (Bravo) Fire3,254Aug 21, 2010Natural
Ranger Complex2,200Jul 17, 2010Natural
Fraguita Fire1,914May 17, 2010Human
Tank Fire945Jul 24, 2010Natural

Every fire of 2010 Arizona fire history

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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.