Wildfires of 2001

Standard Fire

2001Pershing County, NevadaWildfire

The Standard Fire burned 1,280 acres in Pershing County, Nevada, in 2001. It was discovered on July 3, 2001, and contained on July 7, 2001. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,280 acres
Discovered
July 3, 2001
Contained
July 7, 2001
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,388 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.511, -118.232.

The record

Reported final size
1,280 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,388 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,280 acres
Discovered
July 3, 2001, 11:55 a.m. local time
Contained
July 7, 2001, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Nevada
County
Pershing County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Winnemucca District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWID
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4051111821720010703
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-101762

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 200112

FireAcresStartCause
Sheep Fire83,723Aug 9, 2001Natural
Spaulding Fire75,137Aug 12, 2001Natural
Buffalo Complex (Hot Lake) Fire71,934Aug 12, 2001Natural
Unnamed Fire53,317Aug 12, 2001Natural
Upper Willow Fire41,830Aug 17, 2001Human
Fish Fire22,674Aug 9, 2001Natural
Buffalo Complex (Buffalo) Fire21,188Aug 12, 2001Natural
Ranch Fire19,644Aug 12, 2001Natural
Stag Fire19,578Aug 3, 2001Natural
Martis Fire14,500Jun 17, 2001Human
Isolation Complex (Isolated) Fire14,032Jul 3, 2001Natural
Krum Fire12,084Aug 10, 2001Natural

Every fire of 2001 Nevada fire history

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.