Bear Springs Callie Marie Fire
The Bear Springs Callie Marie Fire burned 35,583 acres in Las Animas County, Colorado, in 2011. It was discovered on June 5, 2011, and contained on June 21, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural. Incident teams reported 5 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 35,583 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2011
- Contained
- June 21, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
- Structures destroyed
- 5
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 36,845 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.567, -103.838.
The record
- Reported final size
- 35,583 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 36,845 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2011, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 21, 2011, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Las Animas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Other Federal
- Reporting unit
- Fort Carson Army Base
- Agency
- Department of Defense
- Part of
- Bear Springs-Callie Marie Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3756710383820110605
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2011_CO-FCQ-756
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 8, from June 9, 2011 to June 21, 2011. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 5 (1 residence, 4 other)
- Most structures threatened at once
- 8
- Injuries
- 3
- Most personnel assigned
- 315 on June 11, 2011
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Cost reported by the teams
- $2.5 million, in 2011 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Dormant Brush, Hardwood Slash
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 12,100 acres, on June 10, 2011.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 2011 | 32,500 | |
| Jun 10, 2011 | 44,600 | +12,100 |
| Jun 11, 2011 | 44,600 | 0 |
| Jun 12, 2011 | 44,600 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 2011 | 44,600 | 0 |
| Jun 17, 2011 | 44,600 | |
| Jun 21, 2011 | 44,662 |
Other large fires in Colorado in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ft. Lyons Fire | 14,726 | Apr 9, 2011 | |
| Shell Complex | 13,312 | Jun 7, 2011 | Natural |
| Karval Fire | 12,000 | Mar 24, 2011 | Human |
| Callie Marie Fire | 9,089 | Jun 7, 2011 | Natural |
| Purgatoire Fire | 6,140 | May 30, 2011 | |
| Lakewood Fire | 5,200 | Aug 13, 2011 | |
| Snowflake Fire | 5,000 | Jun 6, 2011 | |
| Salt Fire | 4,500 | Jun 3, 2011 | Natural |
| Duckett Fire | 4,000 | Jun 12, 2011 | Human |
| Crystal Fire | 2,939 | Apr 1, 2011 | Human |
| Young Hollow Fire | 2,200 | Jun 29, 2011 | Human |
| Sierra Vista Fire | 2,042 | Feb 19, 2011 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.