Karval Fire
The Karval Fire burned 12,000 acres in Lincoln County, Colorado, in 2011. It was discovered on March 24, 2011, and contained on March 24, 2011. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 12,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2011
- Contained
- March 24, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,315 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.745, -103.655.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,315 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,630 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2011, 12:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 24, 2011, 9:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- Lincoln County
- Land ownership at origin
- County
- Reporting unit
- Pueblo County
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COLCX
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-CORGD-000268
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3874510365520110324
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2011_CO-LCX-000268
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 |
| 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
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.