Wildfires of 2012

Copperton Fire

2012New MexicoWildfire

The Copperton Fire burned 1,584 acres in New Mexico, in 2012. MTBS dates its ignition to April 23, 2012.

Size
1,584 acres
Ignition
April 23, 2012

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,584 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.153, -108.166.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,584 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 23, 2012
State
New Mexico
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NM3516710814920120423
MTBS assessment
Extended

Other large fires in New Mexico in 20127

FireAcresStartCause
Whitewater-Baldy Fire297,845May 16, 2012Natural
Little Bear Fire40,000Jun 4, 2012Natural
Horse Canyon Fire7,287Jun 29, 2012Natural
Full Moon Fire2,500Jun 2, 2012Natural
Top Rock Fire1,701Oct 14, 2012Human
Whippy Fire1,369Jan 22, 2012Human
Frog Pond Fire1,122Jun 14, 2012Human

Every fire of 2012 New Mexico fire history

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Sources

Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.