Duckett Fire
The Duckett Fire burned 4,000 acres in Colorado, in 2011. It was discovered on June 12, 2011. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 12, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,699 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.258, -105.666.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,699 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,525 acres
- Discovered
- June 12, 2011, 3:11 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Colorado
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Pike and San Isabel National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- COPSF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-COPSF-000044
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3823310568320110612
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1494328
- 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.