2021 Fire Season

[Jim]

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7438/

Commence your freakout. Might burn the mountain, might not.

I saw the large smoke plume yesterday around 5 PM in a Satellite image but figured it was so large that it must have been a cloud shield. Nope.

[andrewp]

Horton Complex recently popped up just north of Hannagan Meadow:

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/7547/

Last report was about 70 acres, but latest VIIRS shows a lot of activity in the last 12 hours so that number is likely quite a bit more.

[Nighthiker]

Reported at 3500 acres.

[Jim]

Horton would be another good one to allow to burn, or only confine to a large areas. It's in the Wallow scar, it's far from those pesky, "resources", we are getting closer to rain, it started from dry lightning, and it's in an area that is more able to have a natural fire regime policy due to being far from the city people.

The Johnson in the Gila is going nicely. It stopped NW progress as it came into the Cub Fire Scar, and to the east/southeast as it came into another fire scar. Both from last summer, and I think both from lightning. The 65,000 acre big Johnson fire is from lightning, too. Seems that if the Cub fire and the other had burned more last summer, some money could potentially been saved, there may have been more moisture in fuels, there might have been some lower intensity in areas of mixed conifer that may have burned a bit hotter this spring due to the very dry last 12 months, and well, it would have been natural and what wilderness is supposed to be about. Wilderness isn't supposed to be cute signs and cuddles and good feels all around.

[The_Eagle]

@chumley
Residents of the Hunts Ranch area have been moved to SET status.
I'm not exactly sure where that is though.

[chumley]

@The_Eagle
Private property visible on HAZ and FS topo layers: [ custom map :: map ]

[The_Eagle]

Residents of Pine-Strawberry now moved to SET Status
Also, Hunts Ranch Moved to GO Status

[The_Eagle]

This one must be moving fast, They just moved Strawberry to GO status.

[The_Eagle]

Pine just moved to Go Status.

[Nighthiker]

Backbone Fire 6,000 acres.

[Jim]

@Nighthiker
What is?

[RedRoxx44]

Telegraph at 176K acres and 51 structures burned--- reported before the other issue about 22 structures burned. Amused when they said one border of the fire checked at the Ray Mine--ya think with that huge pit! What a fire break. I bet the mine didn't even blink at stopping production.

[JimmyLyding]

I really don't think that I'd welcome them showing up in my town. I have insurance and can rebuild or move on. I don't think the wildlife has that option...

You really wouldn't like them showing up on your property like my aunt and uncle experienced in Southern California. Part of that is the loss of control one has over their own property, and part of it is the realization that feces is really really bad in your neck of the woods.

[chumley]

Bear fire south of Hannagan Meadow. Rose Peak is in the path.

[RedRoxx44]

San Carlos Tribe has gone to Stage 3 restrictions. Roads north of Hwy 70 closed except to residents; Point of Pines etc all forest is closed until further notice, including Seneca Lake.

[DixieFlyer]

Bear fire south of Hannagan Meadow. Rose Peak is in the path.

that sucks. Hopefully they can save the fire lookout tower on the summit of Rose Peak

[Jim]

The other fire in 2020 which is confining the current Johnson Fire in the Gila, was the, "Good Fire". Aptly named, I suspect.

[jacobemerick]

First map of Backbone (now 17k acres) posted. Looks like its ripping through Fossil Creek and, so far, seems to be staying west of Deadman Mesa / Hardscrabble. Map includes some neat info about their plan of attack and focus points.

[mudlugs]

@jacobemerick Posted on the facebook page for the Backbone fire (facebook/backbonefireinfo ) probably around 2pm Saturday. I think it's looking east toward Strawberry because the DC10 tankers on Flightaware have been following a track over the town all afternoon.

[Nighthiker]

Wyrick Fire NW of Heber, First reported 2 pm. Lightning caused 119 acres.

[toddak]

@jacobemerick
Interesting feature near the top center of the Backbone map.