Kings Fire
The Kings Fire burned 3,443 acres in Nevada, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to September 12, 1987.
- Size
- 3,443 acres
- Ignition
- September 12, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,443 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.581, -118.249.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,443 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,445 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 12, 1987
- State
- Nevada
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVWID
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4158111824919870912
- 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 198712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rose Creek Fire | 14,334 | Aug 6, 1987 | |
| Gully Fire | 7,291 | Sep 20, 1987 | |
| Zipper Fire | 6,304 | Jun 12, 1987 | |
| Bullion Fire | 5,274 | Aug 21, 1987 | |
| Table Plateau Fire | 5,181 | Aug 21, 1987 | |
| Table Plateau Fire | 5,180 | ||
| Basset Fire | 4,743 | Jun 21, 1987 | |
| Bassett Fire | 4,690 | ||
| Uhalde Fire | 3,865 | Jul 12, 1987 | |
| Ndf 25 Fire | 3,815 | Sep 2, 1987 | |
| Lindsey Creek Fire | 3,337 | Jul 31, 1987 | |
| East Quinn Fire | 3,126 | Oct 12, 1987 |
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.