Gooseberry Fire
The Gooseberry Fire burned 29,338 acres in Nevada, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 7, 1985.
- Size
- 29,338 acres
- Ignition
- July 7, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 29,338 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.493, -119.383.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 29,338 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 29,297 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 7, 1985
- State
- Nevada
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3949311938319850707
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- 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 198512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amax 1 Fire | 92,426 | Jun 19, 1985 | |
| Sentinel Fire | 74,595 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| Dixie Fire | 41,671 | ||
| Jungord Fire | 40,698 | Aug 17, 1985 | |
| Wilder Fire | 39,466 | ||
| Rock Crk 2 Fire | 38,423 | Jul 6, 1985 | |
| Doubleh Fire | 26,834 | Jul 8, 1985 | |
| Black Rock Fire | 19,833 | ||
| Hungry VA3 Fire | 18,186 | Jul 8, 1985 | |
| Cresent Fire | 17,694 | ||
| Antelope Fire | 16,993 | ||
| Yp Desert Fire | 16,962 | Jul 10, 1985 |
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.