Tanner Fire
The Tanner Fire burned 5,460 acres in Arizona, in 2011. It was discovered on August 20, 2011, and contained on October 19, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,460 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2011
- Contained
- October 19, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,381 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.835, -111.010.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,460 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,381 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,456 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2011, 2:11 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 19, 2011, 11:05 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Tonto National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZTNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-AZTNF-000132
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3383511101020110820
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1501037
- Perimeter map method
- Other Agency Digital
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 Arizona in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallow Fire | 538,049 | May 29, 2011 | Human |
| Horseshoe 2 Fire | 222,954 | May 8, 2011 | Human |
| Murphy Complex | 68,079 | May 30, 2011 | Human |
| Monument Fire | 30,526 | Jun 12, 2011 | Human |
| Hidden Fire | 17,188 | Jul 9, 2011 | Natural |
| Arlene Fire | 10,610 | May 23, 2011 | Human |
| New Water Fire | 9,795 | Aug 3, 2011 | Natural |
| Bull Fire | 9,711 | Apr 26, 2011 | Human |
| Stanley Fire | 8,832 | Jun 26, 2011 | Natural |
| Duke Fire | 8,500 | Mar 20, 2011 | Human |
| Pena Fire | 6,050 | Mar 11, 2011 | Human |
| Three Slashes Fire | 5,169 | Aug 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.