Mormon Fire
The Mormon Fire burned 3,228 acres in Nevada, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 22, 1988.
- Size
- 3,228 acres
- Ignition
- June 22, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,228 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.921, -114.352.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,228 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,229 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 22, 1988
- State
- Nevada
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVELD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3692111435219880622
- 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 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Usaf 4 Fire | 14,691 | Aug 11, 1988 | |
| Rodeo Fire | 9,024 | Aug 29, 1988 | |
| Pocket Fire | 7,724 | Jul 17, 1988 | |
| Sadler Fire | 6,955 | Jul 26, 1988 | |
| Doe 1 Fire | 6,876 | Jun 24, 1988 | |
| Burnt Cr Fire | 4,042 | Jul 19, 1988 | |
| Ferdelford Fire | 3,986 | Aug 27, 1988 | |
| Bear Paw Fire | 3,980 | Oct 27, 1988 | |
| Two Mile Fire | 3,687 | Sep 3, 1988 | |
| St Clair Fire | 3,370 | Sep 3, 1988 | |
| Jumbled Fire | 3,319 | Jun 16, 1988 | |
| Olds Rnch Fire | 3,047 | Jul 22, 1988 |
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.