Silver Fire
The Silver Fire burned 234,000 acres in Grant County, New Mexico, in 2013. It was discovered on June 7, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 234,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 137,999 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.889, -107.810.
The record
- Reported final size
- 234,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 137,999 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 138,706 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 2013, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- Grant County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Gila National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMGNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-NMGNF-000008
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3288810780920130607
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1518362
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- KCFAST Report Incorrectly Has Size as 234,000 ac.
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 New Mexico in 20134
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thompson Ridge Fire | 23,938 | May 31, 2013 | Human |
| Jaroso Fire | 11,149 | Jun 10, 2013 | Natural |
| Tres Lagunas Fire | 10,219 | May 30, 2013 | Human |
| Whites Peak Fire | 1,275 | Jun 13, 2013 | Natural |
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.