Big Draw Fire
The Big Draw Fire burned 10,632 acres in Nevada, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to July 27, 1989.
- Size
- 10,632 acres
- Ignition
- July 27, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,632 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.853, -114.358.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,632 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,498 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 27, 1989
- State
- Nevada
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVEKD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4185311435719890727
- 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 19898
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Delmue Fire | 6,678 | Jul 13, 1989 | |
| 8 Mile Fire | 4,340 | Jul 3, 1989 | |
| Limerick Fire | 4,056 | ||
| Rock Crek Fire | 3,517 | Aug 14, 1989 | |
| Willow Fire | 2,671 | Jul 14, 1989 | |
| Walters Fire | 2,591 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Rock Creek Fire | 1,747 | ||
| Bertha Fire | 1,627 | Jul 9, 1989 |
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.