Wallow Fire grows to more than ½ million acres [Fire-Earth estimate]
Wallow Fire Progression Map – June 9, 2011
Click image to enlarge. Source: Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests Other Sizes: Large (665 x 1024) Original size (3203 x 4930)
Hazard Mapping System for Fire and Smoke [June 9-10, 2011]
Current HMS Analysis, Source: NOAA
Analyzed Fires from Satellites – June 10, 2011
Source: NOAA. Click image to enlarge.
Official Stats (Posted on June 9, 2011, at 7:52 p.m) This is an official update on the structure assessment for Greer:
The Wallow Fire Structure Assessment Team has completed its work in Greer. The team reports that 22 homes were destroyed, 5 homes damaged and 24 outbuildings and 1 truck destroyed. The Apache County Sheriff is still in the process of tracking and notifying the property owne[rs]
Current Evacuations
- Full evacuations for Eagar, Springerville, Sunrise, Greer, Blue River, Alpine, Nutrioso, and the following subdivisions along highways 180/191: Escudilla Mountain Estates, Bonita, White Mtn. Acres, and the H-V Ranch. This area includes County Roads 4000, 4001, and 4225.
- The evacuation center is located at Blue Ridge High School, 1200 W. White Mtn. Blvd., Pinetop-Lakeside.
Wallow Fire summary
- Date Started: 5/29/2011
- Location: south and west of Alpine, Arizona
- Number of Personnel: Approximately 3,012, Including 24 hotshot crews and 79 handcrews
- Equipment: 18 dozers, 197 engines, 61 tenders
- Size: 386,690 acres based on last night’s [June 8 MST] infrared flight
- Aircraft: 16 helicopters
- Percent Contained: 5%
- Cause: Human – under investigation
- Injuries to Date: 3 minor injuries
- Residences: 5,242 threatened, 29 destroyed, 5 damaged
- Structures: 24 destroyed
- Other: 1 truck destroyed
Wallow Fire summary (Posted on June 8, 2011, at 11:43 p.m.)
- Size: 389,000 acres
- Structures: 588 threatened; 1 damaged; 11 lost
“Fire Information Officer Kelly Wood said Thursday’s count is the acreage actually burned within the fire’s perimeter and does not include unburned stands or islands of vegetation that could reignite later,” a report said.
Wallow Fire: A major contributor of carbon monoxide pollution over North America
“This map, made with data from the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) sensor on the Terra satellite, shows carbon monoxide concentrations over the United States and southern Canada between May 25 and June 8. Dark red pixels reveal high concentrations.” Source: NASA-EO. Click image to enlarge.
Smoke from Wallow Fire, as well as other wildfires in Arizona, New Mxico, Texas and elsewhere, continued traveling toward the northeast on June 8, 2011, when MODIS on the Terra satellite captured this photo-like image at 12:10 CDT. A thick band of smoke covered a large area stretching from New Mexico and Texas to Illinois. Source: NASA-EO. Click image to enlarge. Download largest image (12 MB, JPEG).\
Air pollutants from wildfires and human activities could harm tens of millions of people.
Hourly Ozone Map (June 9, 2011 animation)
Hourly Ozone and PM2.5 Map (June 9, 2011 animation)
IMG_0159. Night burnout operations help strengthen fireline.
Credit: US Forest Service, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest
Other Major Fires in Arizona
(Posted June 9, 2011,at 10:03 p.m.) The Horseshoe 2 Fire is approximated 128,652 acres and is estimated 40 percent contained. Extreme fire behavior and steep canyon terrain continued to cause erratic winds and difficult conditions on the fire.
Fire Facts:
- Date started: May 8, 2011
- Location: Portal, Arizona
- Estimated Containment: June 22, 2011
- Number of Personnel: 1,054
- Crews: 9 Type 1 and 19 Type 2
- Engines: 46
- Dozers: 3
- Cause: Human
- Water Tenders: 34
- Helicopters: 4 Type 1, 1 Type 2 and 2 Type 3
- Total structures destroyed: 23
- Cost to Date: $33,518,673
(Source: Rocky Basin 2 Incident Management Team)
Murphy Complex (Includes the Murphy Fire and Pajarita Fire) summary (Posted June 9, 2011, at 9:58 a.m.)
- Time/Date Started: 3:28 pm, May 30, 2011
- Location:Nogales Ranger District in the Coronado National Forest 5 miles east of Arivaca, Ariz., and four miles west of Tubac, Arizona
- Cause: Human-caused. Under investigation.
- Fuels: Grass, shrub, oak, mesquite
- Size: 67,525 acres
- Percent Contained: 75%
- Estimated Cost to Date: $4,077,000
- Resources Threatened: Areas surrounding Ruby Road.
- Structures Lost: Historic Atascosa Lookout Tower in the Atascosa Mountains and an outhouse at Pena Blanca Lake.
- Resources Committed: 348 fire personnel, Two Type 1 crews, four Type 2 crews, seven helicopters, 10 engines, five water tenders.
- Cooperating Agencies: USDA Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Arizona State Forestry Division, Arivaca Fire District, Elephant Head Volunteer Fire Department, Patagonia Volunteer Fire Department, Rio Rico Fire District, Tubac Fire District, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
(Source: Northern Arizona Incident Management Team)
This image from NASA’s Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) instrument on the Terra spacecraft show the Wallow and Horseshoe 2 Fires currently burning in Arizona. The data were acquired mid-morning June 7, 2011. www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/fires/main/usa/index.html
The Wallow Fire is consuming large sections of the Apache National Forest. This image shows the northern edge of the fire as seen by Landsat-7 satellite on June 7, 2011. “The image was made with infrared light. Bright red spots are actively burning areas, and darker red areas are freshly burned ground. Unburned forest and grassland is green, while sparsely planted earth or bare ground is pale pink. In many places, the fire has burned right to the edge of the forest.” Source: NASA-EO. Click image to enlarge. Download largest image (2 MB, JPEG)
Related Links
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- 2011 Disaster Calendar – June 4
Post updated at 07:20UTC on June 10, 2011
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