Waldo Canyon Fire
The Waldo Canyon Fire burned 18,947 acres in El Paso County, Colorado, in 2012. It was discovered on June 23, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 18,947 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 20,094 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.883, -104.933.
The record
- Reported final size
- 18,947 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 20,094 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 18,248 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2012, 12:03 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Colorado
- County
- El Paso County
- 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
- 2012-CORGD-000636
- MTBS fire identifier
- CO3888410493320120623
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1510293
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From Glenda. 25 residences damaged 2 civilian fatalities
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Park Fire | 87,275 | Jun 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Last Chance Fire | 45,000 | Jun 25, 2012 | |
| Little Sand Fire | 24,931 | May 14, 2012 | Natural |
| Heartstrong Fire | 24,000 | Mar 18, 2012 | Human |
| Pine Ridge Fire | 13,920 | Jun 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Weber Fire | 10,133 | Jun 22, 2012 | Human |
| Hewlett Fire | 7,702 | ||
| Sunrise Mine Fire | 5,742 | May 25, 2012 | Human |
| Wolf Fire | 5,126 | Aug 3, 2012 | Natural |
| Lower North Fork Fire | 4,142 | Mar 26, 2012 | Human |
| Fern Lake Fire | 3,498 | Oct 9, 2012 | |
| Wetmore Fire | 1,998 | Oct 23, 2012 | 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.