Burning Tree Fire
The Burning Tree Fire burned 1,600 acres in Douglas County, Colorado, in 2011. It was discovered on March 24, 2011. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,600 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,168 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.400, -104.730.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,168 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,664 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2011, 1:15 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Douglas County
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- CODGX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-CORGD-000264
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3940010473020110324
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2011_CO-DGX-000264
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Springs Callie Marie Fire | 35,583 | Jun 5, 2011 | Natural |
| 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 |
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.