Verde Fire
The Verde Fire was reported on August 4, 2019 in Maricopa County, Arizona and burned 2,735 acres. It was declared out on September 2, 2019. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,735 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 4, 2019
- Personnel
- 19
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 33.729, -111.595.
The incident
- Size
- 2,735 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 4, 2019 at 12:15 AM MST
- Contained
- August 10, 2019 at 5:00 PM MST
- Controlled
- August 14, 2019 at 11:47 AM MST
- Declared out
- September 2, 2019 at 2:20 PM MST
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 16 miles east of Scottsdale, AZ
- County
- Maricopa County
- State
- Arizona
- Nearest city reported
- Mesa
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 19
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $687,804
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-AZTNF-001312
- IRWIN identifier
- 257F6CDB-2E7E-48D4-B530-28BEBAE66C43
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Rio Verde, AZ covers the area today.
Nearby
- Rio Verde, AZ5 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Fountain Hills, AZ11 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Tonto Basin, AZ19 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Carefree, AZ20 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Cave Creek, AZ22 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Apache Junction, AZ22 miles south 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 14, 2019 at 10:46 AM MST. Identifier 2019-AZTNF-001312.