Callie Marie Fire
The Callie Marie Fire burned 9,089 acres in Colorado, in 2011. It was discovered on June 7, 2011, and contained on June 20, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 9,089 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 2011
- Contained
- June 20, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,388 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.596, -103.651.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,089 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,388 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,108 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 2011, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 20, 2011, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Colorado
- Reporting unit
- Pike and San Isabel National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CODDQ
- Part of
- Bear Springs-Callie Marie Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-CODDQ-0000745
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3759610365120110607
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1498232
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From Glenda
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 |
| 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
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.