Wildfires of 1988

Sadler Fire

1988NevadaWildfire

The Sadler Fire burned 6,955 acres in Nevada, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 26, 1988.

Size
6,955 acres
Ignition
July 26, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,955 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.175, -115.838.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,955 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,122 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 26, 1988
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVEKD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4017611583819880726
MTBS assessment
Initial

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

FireAcresStartCause
Usaf 4 Fire14,691Aug 11, 1988
Rodeo Fire9,024Aug 29, 1988
Pocket Fire7,724Jul 17, 1988
Doe 1 Fire6,876Jun 24, 1988
Burnt Cr Fire4,042Jul 19, 1988
Ferdelford Fire3,986Aug 27, 1988
Bear Paw Fire3,980Oct 27, 1988
Two Mile Fire3,687Sep 3, 1988
St Clair Fire3,370Sep 3, 1988
Jumbled Fire3,319Jun 16, 1988
Mormon Fire3,228Jun 22, 1988
Olds Rnch Fire3,047Jul 22, 1988

Every fire of 1988 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.