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Tadpole Fire Debris Flows, New Mexico: July and September 2020 Completed

By Landslide Hazards Program July 18, 2022

On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at approximately 1:45 PM MDT, the Tadpole wildfire ignited in the Gila National Forest, approximately 19 kilometers (km) north of Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico. The fire burned 45 square kilometers prior to containment in early July, 2020 (Inciweb). Fuels were primarily timber with grass understory, brush, and chaparral. The Brush, Bringham, and Bighorn fires in southwestern Arizona, within several hundred km of the Tadpole fire also ignited in early June, and for a time all four fires burned simultaneously.

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On Saturday, June 6, 2020 at approximately 1:45 PM MDT, the Tadpole wildfire ignited in the Gila National Forest, approximately 19 kilometers (km) north of Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico. The fire burned 45 square kilometers prior to containment in early July, 2020 (Inciweb). Fuels were primarily timber with grass understory, brush, and chaparral. The Brush, Bringham, and Bighorn fires in southwestern Arizona, within several hundred km of the Tadpole fire also ignited in early June, and for a time all four fires burned simultaneously.

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