Wildfires of 2005

Unnamed Fire

2005NevadaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 320 acres in Nevada, in 2005. It was discovered on August 2, 2005, and contained on August 2, 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to September 14, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
320 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2005
Contained
August 2, 2005
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,573 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.547, -114.973.

The record

Reported final size
320 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,573 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,571 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2005, 9:00 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
September 14, 2005
Contained
August 2, 2005, 7:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nevada
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Desert National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVDSR
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV3653611498620050914
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2005NVDSRB21E
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

FireAcresStartCause
Southern Nevada Complex (Duzak) Fire238,058Jun 22, 2005Natural
Delamar Fire168,293Jun 28, 2005Natural
Southern Nevada Complex (Meadow Valley) Fire149,131Jun 22, 2005Natural
Esmeralda Fire96,987Jul 15, 2005Natural
Fork Fire43,245Jun 28, 2005Natural
Wilson Complex (Rawhide) Fire35,749Jul 15, 2005Natural
Goodsprings Fire33,569Jun 22, 2005Natural
Southern Nevada Complex (Tramp) Fire27,318Jun 28, 2005Natural
Barrel Fire24,370Aug 22, 2005Natural
Chance Fire23,749Aug 28, 2005Human
Gass Fire22,000Jun 22, 2005Natural
Air Force Fire21,000Jun 3, 2005Natural

Every fire of 2005 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.