Air Force Fire
The Air Force Fire burned 21,000 acres in Clark County, Nevada, in 2005. It was discovered on June 3, 2005, and contained on June 11, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 21,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 3, 2005
- Contained
- June 11, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 20,439 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.858, -116.511.
The record
- Reported final size
- 21,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 20,439 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 20,431 acres
- Discovered
- June 3, 2005, 8:11 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 11, 2005, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Clark County
- Land ownership at origin
- Other Federal
- Reporting unit
- Southern Nevada District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVSND
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3693411647920050603
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-502022
- Note on the perimeter
- None
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Nevada Complex (Duzak) Fire | 238,058 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Delamar Fire | 168,293 | Jun 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Southern Nevada Complex (Meadow Valley) Fire | 149,131 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Esmeralda Fire | 96,987 | Jul 15, 2005 | Natural |
| Fork Fire | 43,245 | Jun 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Wilson Complex (Rawhide) Fire | 35,749 | Jul 15, 2005 | Natural |
| Goodsprings Fire | 33,569 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Southern Nevada Complex (Tramp) Fire | 27,318 | Jun 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Barrel Fire | 24,370 | Aug 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Chance Fire | 23,749 | Aug 28, 2005 | Human |
| Gass Fire | 22,000 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Rawhide Fire | 13,453 |
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.