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The Apache–Sitgreaves National Forests[a] is a 2.76-million-acre (11,169 km 2) [1] United States National Forest which runs along the Mogollon Rim and the White Mountains in east-central Arizona and into the U.S. state of New Mexico. Formerly two forests, it is currently managed as one unit by USDA Forest Service from the Forest Supervisors ...
Big Lake is situated at 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in the White Mountains at the base of Mount Baldy (11,409 ft) in the Apache-Sitgreaves National forest. It is a large reservoir located in the subalpine grasslands and the petran [ check spelling ] subalpine forests of eastern Arizona about 20 miles from the New Mexico border.
Rodeo–Chediski fires on July 1, 2002, as seen from NASA 's ER-2 aircraft. The Rodeo–Chediski Fire was a wildfire that burned in east-central Arizona beginning on June 18, 2002, and was not controlled until July 7. [2] It was the worst forest fire in Arizona's recorded history until June 14, 2011 when the Wallow Fire surpassed it. [3]
The Apache Fire is burning east of Palermo and was 673 acres with 15% containment, according to a Cal Fire update around 7 a.m. Tuesday. The vegetation fire sparked around 7:20 p.m. Monday near ...
The Rattlesnake Fire was a wildfire that burned 26,072 acres (10,551 ha) in Navajo and Greenlee Counties, in Arizona. The fire was detected on April 11, 2018, on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation and spread onto the San Carlos Indian Reservation and Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests over the following four days. Fanned by high winds, the ...
Dozens of structures have been ordered to evacuate as the Apache Fire burns with a “dangerous” rate of spread, Cal Fire officials said. Evacuations ordered as 600-acre-plus wildfire burns in ...
Sitgreaves National Forest. Sitgreaves National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in Arizona on July 1, 1908 with 749,084 acres (3,031.44 km 2) from portions of Black Mesa and Tonto National Forests. In 1974 entire forest was administratively combined with Apache National Forest to create Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests. [1]
2021 Arizona wildfires. The 2021 Arizona wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of Arizona, United States. Wildfires across the state burned 524,428 acres (212,228 ha) of land in at least 1,773 fires throughout the state, [ 2] fueled in part by a drought, hot temperatures, and thunderstorms producing dry ...