Wildfires of 2000

Unnamed Fire

2000Washoe County, NevadaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,900 acres in Washoe County, Nevada, in 2000. It was discovered on August 1, 2000, and contained on August 13, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,900 acres
Discovered
August 1, 2000
Contained
August 13, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,876 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.416, -119.819.

The record

Reported final size
2,900 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,876 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,788 acres
Discovered
August 1, 2000, 5:25 p.m. local time
Contained
August 13, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nevada
County
Washoe County
Reporting unit
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NVHTF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV3944211983520000801
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-357438
Perimeter records
3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
Countyzone Fire73,694Jul 26, 2000Natural
Bilk Creek Complex (Double H) Fire70,876Jul 17, 2000Natural
Countyzone Fire64,727
Chokecherr Fire56,010Aug 17, 2000Natural
Twin Peaks Fire42,563Aug 1, 2000Natural
Kelly Creek Fire37,717Jun 30, 2000Natural
Camp Creek Fire31,194Aug 1, 2000Natural
Choke Cherry Fire25,000Aug 10, 2000Natural
Bilk Creek Complex (Cherry Creek) Fire23,483Jul 17, 2000Natural
Coyote Fire15,719Jul 27, 2000Natural
Three Mile Fire15,000Aug 2, 2000Natural
S Willow Fire14,892Aug 13, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Nevada fire history

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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.