Cedar Fire
The Cedar Fire was reported on June 15, 2016 in Navajo County, Arizona and burned 45,977 acres. It was declared out on October 12, 2016.
- Size
- 45,977 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 15, 2016
- Personnel
- 22
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 34.062, -110.232.
The incident
- Size
- 45,977 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 15, 2016 at 11:42 AM MST
- Contained
- July 1, 2016 at 4:14 PM MST
- Declared out
- October 12, 2016 at 2:41 PM MST
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Navajo County
- State
- Arizona
- Nearest city reported
- Whiteriver
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Jurisdiction
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- BIA
- Personnel assigned
- 22
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $14,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-AZFTA-000403
- IRWIN identifier
- 33F8ECEB-A042-43B0-A142-99B3FAD3BCE9
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Cibecue, AZ covers the area today.
Nearby
- Cibecue, AZ15 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Lake of the Woods, AZ16 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- North Fork, AZ16 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Linden, AZ16 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ17 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Show Low, AZ18 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
Arizona wildfires today Wildfires of 2016 All current fires
Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated July 8, 2020 at 7:58 AM MST. Identifier 2016-AZFTA-000403.