Wildfires of 1999

Unit 3 Ngr Fire

1999NevadaOther fire

The Unit 3 Ngr Fire burned 1,001 acres in Nevada, in 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to October 16, 1999.

Size
1,001 acres
Ignition
October 16, 1999

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,001 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.200, -115.446.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,001 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 16, 1999
State
Nevada
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4020011544619991016
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
15 std.

Other large fires in Nevada in 199912

FireAcresStartCause
Dun Glenn Complex (Poker Brown) Fire231,389Aug 4, 1999Natural
Sadler Complex199,288Aug 5, 1999Natural
New Pass Complex (New Pass-Antelope) Fire139,755Aug 4, 1999Natural
Eureka Complex (Trail Canyon) Fire95,793Aug 5, 1999Natural
Sombrero Fire80,448Aug 4, 1999Natural
Clover Fire73,077Jul 8, 1999Human
Jungo Complex72,179Aug 4, 1999Natural
Frenchie Fire54,677Aug 4, 1999Natural
Rose Fire48,479Aug 6, 1999Natural
New Pass Fire47,435
Fish Complex (Fish Springs) Fire47,133Aug 23, 1999Natural
Badger Fire40,000Aug 24, 1999Natural

Every fire of 1999 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.