Mormon Fire
The Mormon Fire burned 1,043 acres in Nevada, in 1992. It was discovered on August 11, 1992, and contained on August 12, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,043 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 1992
- Contained
- August 12, 1992
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,063 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.967, -114.484.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,043 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,063 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,065 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 1992, 7:03 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 12, 1992, 7:25 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Nevada
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Southern Nevada District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVELD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3698211432719920811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-39979
- 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 199212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffee Pot Fire | 38,200 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| Dixie Crk Fire | 13,202 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| Canyon Fire | 7,180 | Aug 2, 1992 | Human |
| Idaho Line Fire | 5,500 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| California Creek Fire | 3,600 | Aug 4, 1992 | Human |
| Timber Gulch Fire | 2,895 | Jun 10, 1992 | Natural |
| Barth Fire | 2,502 | Jul 22, 1992 | Human |
| Dawley Creek Fire | 2,400 | Aug 29, 1992 | Natural |
| Bluff Ck Fire | 2,000 | Aug 1, 1992 | Natural |
| French Flt Fire | 1,757 | Aug 1, 1992 | Natural |
| Jungo Fire | 1,380 | Jul 28, 1992 | Human |
| Meadow Fire | 1,067 | Aug 15, 1992 | Natural |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.