Reservoir Fire
The Reservoir Fire burned 5,742 acres in Washoe County, Nevada, in 1999. It was discovered on June 24, 1999, and contained on June 26, 1999. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 5,742 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 1999
- Contained
- June 26, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,790 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.628, -119.834.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,742 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,790 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,163 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 1999, 1:21 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 26, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Carson City District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3965111978019990624
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-3855
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dun Glenn Complex (Poker Brown) Fire | 231,389 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Sadler Complex | 199,288 | Aug 5, 1999 | Natural |
| New Pass Complex (New Pass-Antelope) Fire | 139,755 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Eureka Complex (Trail Canyon) Fire | 95,793 | Aug 5, 1999 | Natural |
| Sombrero Fire | 80,448 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Clover Fire | 73,077 | Jul 8, 1999 | Human |
| Jungo Complex | 72,179 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Frenchie Fire | 54,677 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Rose Fire | 48,479 | Aug 6, 1999 | Natural |
| New Pass Fire | 47,435 | ||
| Fish Complex (Fish Springs) Fire | 47,133 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
| Badger Fire | 40,000 | Aug 24, 1999 | 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.