Buffalo Fire
The Buffalo Fire burned 8,600 acres in Nevada, in 1995. It was discovered on July 29, 1995, and contained on July 31, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 8,600 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1995
- Contained
- July 31, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,023 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.428, -117.521.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,023 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,855 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 1995, 3:01 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 31, 1995, 7:00 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
- NV4046511744319950729
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-24205
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter obtained from MTBS - S. Levitt 5/6/2016
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 199512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Izen Fire | 23,750 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Dann Fire | 22,890 | Jul 21, 1995 | Natural |
| Battle Creek Fire | 11,034 | Aug 6, 1995 | Natural |
| Barber Complex (Barber Canyon) Fire | 7,059 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| DOENTS1 Fire | 5,000 | Aug 23, 1995 | Human |
| Barber Complex (Jupiter Mine) Fire | 4,405 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Frenchie1 Fire | 3,657 | Jul 20, 1995 | Natural |
| Thacker Complex (Thacker) Fire | 2,810 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Thacker Complex (Kings River Valley) Fire | 2,675 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Rock Creek Fire | 2,445 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Buckskin Complex | 1,728 | Sep 16, 1995 | Natural |
| Minoletti Fire | 1,386 | Sep 16, 1995 | 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.