Tres Lagunas Fire
The Tres Lagunas Fire burned 10,219 acres in San Miguel County, New Mexico, in 2013. It was discovered on May 30, 2013, and contained on July 5, 2013. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 10,219 acres
- Discovered
- May 30, 2013
- Contained
- July 5, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,829 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.716, -105.683.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,219 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,829 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,219 acres
- Discovered
- May 30, 2013, 3:26 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 5, 2013, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- New Mexico
- County
- San Miguel County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Santa Fe National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMSNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-NMSNF-000069
- MTBS fire identifier
- NM3571510568020130530
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1519490
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Fire | 234,000 | Jun 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Thompson Ridge Fire | 23,938 | May 31, 2013 | Human |
| Jaroso Fire | 11,149 | Jun 10, 2013 | Natural |
| 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.