Wildfires of 1984

Jupiter Fire

1984NevadaWildfire

The Jupiter Fire burned 4,323 acres in Nevada, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to July 18, 1984.

Size
4,323 acres
Ignition
July 18, 1984

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,323 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.712, -117.812.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,323 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,324 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 18, 1984
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWID
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4071511779419840718
MTBS assessment
Extended
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter obtained from MTBS - S. Levitt 5/9/2016

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Nevada in 198412

FireAcresStartCause
Lander Fire79,410
Izen 1 Fire38,456Aug 30, 1984
Bullhead Fire29,337Jul 6, 1984
Indian Fire17,012Jun 28, 1984
Freds Mt 2 Fire16,843Jul 14, 1984
Seamen 1 Fire16,681May 31, 1984
Izen 2 Fire15,197
Mitchell Canyon Fire10,045Jun 28, 1984
Dry Valley Fire9,042Jun 17, 1984
Coyote Fire6,804Jul 11, 1984
Unnamed Fire6,553Jun 23, 1984
Bfdell 3 Fire6,300Jul 5, 1984

Every fire of 1984 Nevada fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.