Wildfires of 1986

Spaulding Fire

1986NevadaWildfire

The Spaulding Fire burned 4,532 acres in Nevada, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to June 24, 1986.

Size
4,532 acres
Ignition
June 24, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,532 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.546, -117.664.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,532 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,533 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 24, 1986
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWID
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4054611766419860624
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter obtained from MTBS - S. Levitt 5/6/2016

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 198612

FireAcresStartCause
Usaf 2 Fire17,402Jun 28, 1986
National Fire16,588Jun 24, 1986
Unnamed Fire16,058
Preble Fire14,956Aug 10, 1986
Grass Val Fire7,771Jul 3, 1986
Button PT2 Fire4,354Jun 24, 1986
Whirlwind Fire4,302Jun 19, 1986
8 Mile 2 Fire3,803Aug 10, 1986
Cold Creek Fire3,737Aug 5, 1986
Churchl Bt Fire3,221Aug 9, 1986
Devilsgate Fire3,067Aug 7, 1986
Sleeper Fire2,989Jun 28, 1986

Every fire of 1986 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.