More evacuations were ordered Monday as Arizona's third largest wildfire on record threatened new areas, including a New Mexico town. Officials also revised upwards their estimate of the burn size, now saying that it covers 365 square miles, up from 301 square miles earlier Monday. ...
The fire is the state's third-largest, behind a 2002 blaze that blackened more than 732 square miles and one in 2005 that burned about 387 square miles in the Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek.
The state also has another major wildfire, its fifth-largest, in southeastern Arizona that threatened two communities. ...
At 165 square miles, or 106,000 acres, the Wallow fire has now become the fourth-largest (now third-largest) wildfire in state history. The Rodeo-Chediski burned 469,000 acres in 2002, the Cave Creek complex fire burned 248,000 acres in 2005, and the Willow fire burned 120,000 acres in 2004.
Meanwhile, the Horseshoe Two fire burning in southern Arizona has become the fifth-largest wildfire in state history at 86,000 acres. ...
Five largest Arizona wildfires on record occurred in the last 9 years – ‘This does not foretell well for the future’
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