Wildfires of 1985

Cliff Side Fire

1985NevadaWildfire

The Cliff Side Fire burned 2,150 acres in Nevada, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 1985.

Size
2,150 acres
Ignition
June 23, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,150 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.917, -114.260.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,150 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,797 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 23, 1985
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVEKD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4093311426819850623
MTBS assessment
Initial

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 198512

FireAcresStartCause
Amax 1 Fire92,426Jun 19, 1985
Sentinel Fire74,595Jul 7, 1985
Dixie Fire41,671
Jungord Fire40,698Aug 17, 1985
Wilder Fire39,466
Rock Crk 2 Fire38,423Jul 6, 1985
Gooseberry Fire29,338Jul 7, 1985
Doubleh Fire26,834Jul 8, 1985
Black Rock Fire19,833
Hungry VA3 Fire18,186Jul 8, 1985
Cresent Fire17,694
Antelope Fire16,993

Every fire of 1985 Nevada fire history

Nearby

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.