Rainbow Complex (Mule) Fire
The Rainbow Complex (Mule) Fire burned 17,400 acres in Nevada, in 1996. It was discovered on June 7, 1996, and contained on June 8, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 17,400 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 1996
- Contained
- June 8, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 17,860 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.333, -114.751.
The record
- Reported final size
- 17,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 17,860 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 17,861 acres
- Discovered
- June 7, 1996, 11:10 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 8, 1996, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Nevada
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Ely District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVELD
- Part of
- Rainbow Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3845611473219960607
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-17863
- 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 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Humboldt Complex (Dutch Flat) Fire | 67,643 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Quinn-Odell Fire | 58,307 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Upper Humboldt Complex (Slaven 2) Fire | 35,932 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Winnemucca Complex (Bloody Run) Fire | 33,665 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Division Fire | 30,450 | Aug 1, 1996 | Natural |
| Frenchie Fire | 29,135 | Sep 10, 1996 | Natural |
| Bobs Flat Fire | 27,972 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Upper Humboldt Complex (Getchell) Fire | 26,598 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Winnemucca Complex (Winnemucca) Fire | 21,367 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Humboldt Fire | 18,800 | Aug 12, 1996 | Natural |
| Upper Humboldt Complex (North Chimney) Fire | 16,600 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Flat Creek Fire | 14,908 |
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.