Telephone Fire
The Telephone Fire was reported on September 4, 2019 in Apache County, Arizona and burned 2,361 acres. It was declared out on December 13, 2019. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,361 acres
- Contained
- 90%
- Discovered
- September 4, 2019
- Personnel
- 5
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 34.170, -109.788.
The incident
- Size
- 2,361 acres
- Containment
- 90%
- Discovered
- September 4, 2019 at 12:23 PM MST
- Contained
- December 3, 2019 at 2:40 PM MST
- Controlled
- December 3, 2019 at 2:41 PM MST
- Declared out
- December 13, 2019 at 4:04 PM MST
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Lake Mountain
- County
- Apache County
- State
- Arizona
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 5
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $130,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-AZASF-000830
- IRWIN identifier
- E432C9DF-0870-4E26-8810-31D3A7B11FF4
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for McNary, AZ covers the area today.
Nearby
- McNary, AZ8 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Pinetop-Lakeside, AZ10 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Lake of the Woods, AZ12 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Show Low, AZ15 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- North Fork, AZ15 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- White Mountain Lake, AZ17 miles northwest 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 December 13, 2019 at 4:05 PM MST. Identifier 2019-AZASF-000830.