Dog Head Fire
The Dog Head Fire was reported on June 14, 2016 in Torrance County, New Mexico and burned 17,912 acres. It was declared out on September 12, 2016. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 17,912 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 14, 2016
- Personnel
- 8
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 34.811, -106.375.
The incident
- Size
- 17,912 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 14, 2016 at 11:33 AM MDT
- Contained
- July 13, 2016 at 1:00 PM MDT
- Controlled
- August 10, 2016 at 8:30 AM MDT
- Declared out
- September 12, 2016 at 5:30 PM MDT
- Cause
- Human
- County
- Torrance County
- State
- New Mexico
- Nearest city reported
- Tajique
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 8
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $10,803,337
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-NMCIF-000277
- IRWIN identifier
- 0D38EF7D-2681-49FB-AA40-2301B2CC400C
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Meadow Lake, NM covers the area today.
Nearby
- Meadow Lake, NM10 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Ponderosa Pine, NM12 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Monterey Park, NM16 miles west of the fire’s origin
- El Cerro Mission, NM16 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Las Maravillas, NM17 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Peralta, NM18 miles west of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated September 13, 2016 at 8:01 AM MDT. Identifier 2016-NMCIF-000277.