Wildfires of 1994

Rodeo Fire

1994NevadaWildfire

The Rodeo Fire burned 1,016 acres in Nevada, in 1994. It was discovered on July 16, 1994, and contained on July 19, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,016 acres
Discovered
July 16, 1994
Contained
July 19, 1994
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,113 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.442, -119.574.

The record

Reported final size
1,016 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,113 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,112 acres
Discovered
July 16, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 19, 1994, 5:37 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nevada
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Winnemucca District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWID
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4042011955819940716
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-30015
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 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Gregerson Fire43,000Jul 1, 1994Natural
Moore Fire24,175Jul 31, 1994Natural
Goose Crk Fire16,000Jul 23, 1994Natural
Hallelujah Fire12,585Jul 14, 1994Human
Lone Mtn Fire11,188Jul 16, 1994Natural
Rain Fire9,654Jul 24, 1994Human
Mahogany Fire8,941Jul 17, 1994Natural
Badger Fire7,910Jul 17, 1994Natural
Holbrook Fire6,469Aug 8, 1994Human
Porphyry Fire6,125Aug 29, 1994Human
Rattlesnak Fire5,700Jun 28, 1994Natural
Woodhills Fire3,353Aug 5, 1994Natural

Every fire of 1994 Nevada fire history

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.