Wildfires of 1998

Unnamed Fire

1998NevadaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,075 acres in Nevada, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to July 15, 1998.

Size
1,075 acres
Ignition
July 15, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,075 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.320, -114.507.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,075 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 15, 1998
State
Nevada
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV3730711448819980715
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
RSAC found fire. Note

Other large fires in Nevada in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Keystone Fire13,708Aug 14, 1998Natural
BIA7 Fire11,631Jul 18, 1998Human
Black Mtn Fire10,570Aug 30, 1998Natural
Boulder Valley Fire7,521Aug 23, 1998Human
Spaulding Fire5,988Aug 14, 1998Natural
Rainbow Fire5,132Jul 9, 1998Natural
Boyd II Fire3,711Jul 17, 1998Human
MM272 Fire3,250Aug 23, 1998Human
Airport Fire2,754Jul 29, 1998Natural
Union Comp Fire2,602Jul 17, 1998Human
Alpha Fire2,525Aug 30, 1998Natural
Sam Fire1,801Jul 20, 1998Natural

Every fire of 1998 Nevada fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.