Wildfires of 2011

Callie Marie Fire

2011ColoradoWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Bear Springs Callie Marie Fire35,583Jun 5, 2011Natural
Ft. Lyons Fire14,726Apr 9, 2011
Shell Complex13,312Jun 7, 2011Natural
Karval Fire12,000Mar 24, 2011Human
Purgatoire Fire6,140May 30, 2011
Lakewood Fire5,200Aug 13, 2011
Snowflake Fire5,000Jun 6, 2011
Salt Fire4,500Jun 3, 2011Natural
Duckett Fire4,000Jun 12, 2011Human
Crystal Fire2,939Apr 1, 2011Human
Young Hollow Fire2,200Jun 29, 2011Human
Sierra Vista Fire2,042Feb 19, 2011Human

Every fire of 2011 Colorado fire history

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.