Wildfires of 1987

Uhalde Fire

1987NevadaWildfire

The Uhalde Fire burned 3,865 acres in Nevada, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to July 12, 1987.

Size
3,865 acres
Ignition
July 12, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,865 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.496, -115.197.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,865 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,830 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 12, 1987
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVELD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV3949611519719870712
MTBS assessment
Extended

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

FireAcresStartCause
Rose Creek Fire14,334Aug 6, 1987
Gully Fire7,291Sep 20, 1987
Zipper Fire6,304Jun 12, 1987
Bullion Fire5,274Aug 21, 1987
Table Plateau Fire5,181Aug 21, 1987
Table Plateau Fire5,180
Basset Fire4,743Jun 21, 1987
Bassett Fire4,690
Ndf 25 Fire3,815Sep 2, 1987
Kings Fire3,443Sep 12, 1987
Lindsey Creek Fire3,337Jul 31, 1987
East Quinn Fire3,126Oct 12, 1987

Every fire of 1987 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.