Minerva Fire
The Minerva Fire burned 3,086 acres in Nevada, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to August 23, 1991.
- Size
- 3,086 acres
- Ignition
- August 23, 1991
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,086 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.877, -115.997.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,086 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,088 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 23, 1991
- State
- Nevada
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVHTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4187711599719910823
- 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 199110
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Izzenhood Fire | 6,267 | Aug 3, 1991 | |
| Reservation Hill Fire | 4,855 | Aug 20, 1991 | |
| Osgood Fire | 3,819 | Oct 7, 1991 | |
| Lovely Fire | 3,597 | Aug 21, 1991 | |
| Oasis Fire | 2,558 | Jul 14, 1991 | |
| Coyote Fire | 2,506 | Aug 17, 1991 | |
| Rebel Fire | 1,490 | Aug 20, 1991 | |
| Midas Fire | 1,387 | ||
| Silver Fire | 1,277 | Aug 19, 1991 | |
| Tuscarora Fire | 1,048 | Aug 20, 1991 |
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.