Pioche Fire
The Pioche Fire burned 941 acres in Lincoln County, Nevada, in 2002. It was discovered on June 8, 2002. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 941 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,053 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.926, -114.436.
The record
- Reported final size
- 941 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,053 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,052 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 2002, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lincoln County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Ely District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVELD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3793611443720020608
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2002_NV-ELD-Y119
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter obtained from MTBS - S. Levitt 5/6/2016
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mud Springs Fire | 10,140 | Jul 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Eagle Fire | 8,527 | Jul 11, 2002 | Natural |
| Ellsworth Fire | 4,450 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Lost Cabin Fire | 4,340 | Jul 14, 2002 | Natural |
| Lost Cabin Fire | 4,307 | ||
| Buster Fire | 4,214 | Jul 30, 2002 | Natural |
| Izzenhood Fire | 2,562 | Feb 1, 2002 | |
| Nrthpahroc Fire | 2,079 | Jun 1, 2002 | Natural |
| Pony Express Fire | 2,000 | Jul 14, 2002 | Natural |
| Toulon Fire | 1,162 | Sep 29, 2002 | Human |
| Parsnip Fire | 1,140 | Jun 1, 2002 | Natural |
| Mailsummit Fire | 1,010 | Jul 20, 2002 | 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.