Barrel Fire
The Barrel Fire burned 24,370 acres in Washoe County, Nevada, in 2005. It was discovered on August 22, 2005, and contained on September 9, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 24,370 acres
- Discovered
- August 22, 2005
- Contained
- September 9, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 23,090 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.917, -119.869.
The record
- Reported final size
- 24,370 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 23,090 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 24,509 acres
- Discovered
- August 22, 2005, 3:41 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 9, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Washoe County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Northern California District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- CANOD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4189011980120050822
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-511358
- Perimeter records
- 4 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 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 |
| Chance Fire | 23,749 | Aug 28, 2005 | Human |
| Gass Fire | 22,000 | Jun 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Air Force Fire | 21,000 | Jun 3, 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.