Wildfires of 1991

Coyote Fire

1991NevadaWildfire

The Coyote Fire burned 2,506 acres in Nevada, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to August 17, 1991.

Size
2,506 acres
Ignition
August 17, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,506 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.363, -116.566.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,506 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,507 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 17, 1991
State
Nevada
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVEKD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4136311656619910817
MTBS assessment
Extended
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 199110

FireAcresStartCause
Izzenhood Fire6,267Aug 3, 1991
Reservation Hill Fire4,855Aug 20, 1991
Osgood Fire3,819Oct 7, 1991
Lovely Fire3,597Aug 21, 1991
Minerva Fire3,086Aug 23, 1991
Oasis Fire2,558Jul 14, 1991
Rebel Fire1,490Aug 20, 1991
Midas Fire1,387
Silver Fire1,277Aug 19, 1991
Tuscarora Fire1,048Aug 20, 1991

Every fire of 1991 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.