Background
The Warm Fire was started by lightning on June 8. The fire met the criteria for wildland fire use spelled out in the Kaibab National Forest's land and fire management plans, and federal wildland fire management policies. The forest managed the Warm Fire as a wildland fire use fire for approximately two and a half weeks.
However, the fire escaped the boundaries prescribed for wildland fire use and burned about 40,000 acres in the central part of the Kaibab Plateau from June 25, when fire managers shifted from a wildland fire use to a suppression strategy, until it was contained on July 4. Much of that area burned at a high intensity and suffered severe fire effects.
The Kaibab National Forest and its partners are now developing a series of post-fire monitoring, research and recovery projects, and reviewing management of the fire to learn lessons about future wildland fire use management on the Kaibab Plateau.
Fire Management & Effects
- The Warm Fire – Wildland Fire Use Management
(documents and photos related to the fire when it was being managed as a WFU)
- The Warm Fire – Wildland Fire Suppression
- The Warm Fire – Effects
A Burned Area Emergency Response team identified roughly 17,300 acres, about 30 percent of the total fire area, as having high burn severity as it relates to soil and watershed conditions. Of those acres, 11,750 acres required immediate stabilization treatments. During the week of July 24, the 11,750 acres were aerially seeded with sterile annual rye grass seed by fixed-wing aircraft. We expect these treatments to result in rapid growth of ground cover that will reduce the risk of flooding, soil erosion and invasion of noxious weeds...
BAER Team Report — .pdf (78.6 kb) ; .rtf (199 kb) ; .doc (91.5 kb)
With stabilization measures completed, we turned our attention to post fire recovery of the wildfire area. A team of resource specialists was convened to evaluate resource conditions in the wildfire area and identify opportunities for recovery work...
Warm Fire Assessment FINAL, April 2007 — .pdf (5.11 mb) ; .doc (8.35 mb)
- The Warm Fire – After Action Review, March 2007 — .pdf (62.3 kb) ; .rtf (124 kb) ; .doc (90.5 kb)
Post Fire Recovery
Warm Fire Rehabilitation And Recovery Plan And Status Summary; December 2008: .pdf (45 kb)
Specific Projects
- Warm Fire Reforestation Project
Decision Memo: .pdf (50.2 kb); .doc (73.5 kb)
Scoping Letter: .pdf (248 kb)
- Warm Fire Maps
- ADOT Hazard Tree Removal
Jacobs Lake Project: .pdf (212 kb)
- NKRD Hazard Tree Removal along Highways and Forest System Roads and Trails in the 2006 Warm Fire
Map - Hazard Tree Removal: .pdf (634 kb)
Decision Notice & Finding of No significant Impact - Hazard Tree Removal: .doc (63 kb) .pdf (29 kb)
Environmental Assessment - Hazard Tree Removal: .doc (1 mb); .pdf (193 kb)
Scoping Letter - Hazardous Trees: .rtf (100 kb)
Scoping Letter - ADOT: .rtf (100 kb)
- Range Improvement
- RMRS Research
- Recovery EIS
Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Warm Fire Recovery Project .html
Signed Letter to the Public about the Warm Fire Recovery DEIS .pdf
Scoping Letter: .rtf (125 kb) ; .doc (116 kb) ; .pdf (76 kb)
Analysis Background
Public Involvement
Postcard from the Field: Warm Fire Survey; October 2007: Release
Partners Field Trip Notes, October 12, 2006: .pdf (90.5 kb)
Public Questions & Responses Generated from Kanab Public Meeting on Oct. 11, 2006: .pdf (103 kb); .doc (110 kb); .rtf (130 kb)
Collaboration Phase Comments: .pdf (102 kb)
Warm Fire Recover EIS - Slide Show: .pdf (76.5 kb)
Warm Fire Salvage Public Meeting Notes, Flagstaff, Arizona February 8, 2007: .pdf (11.1 kb) ; .rtf (8.37 kb) ; .doc (21.5 kb)
Warm Fire Salvage Public Meeting Notes, Kanab, Utah February 9, 2007: .pdf (22.0 kb) ; .rtf (17.4 kb) ; .doc (36.5 kb)
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