Verdi (Stone Ridge) Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,735 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.535, -119.967.

Reported final size

6,052 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

5,735 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

5,662 acres

Discovered

August 11, 2006, 3:12 p.m. local time

Contained

August 14, 2006, 8:00 a.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Nevada

County

Washoe County

Reporting unit

Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

NVWASX

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2006-NVCCD-001579

MTBS fire identifier

NV3955211994120060811

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

FS-1440958

Perimeter map method

GPS-Flight

Perimeter records

2 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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from August 11, 2006 to August 14, 2006. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most structures threatened at once

850

Most personnel assigned

410 on August 12, 2006

Most aircraft assigned

4

Cost reported by the teams

$808,000, in 2006 dollars

Primary fuel model reported

Brush (2 feet)

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 3,661 acres, on August 12, 2006.

Every fire of 2006 Nevada fire history

• Verdi, NV2 miles southwest of the fire
• Mogul, NV3 miles southeast of the fire
• Reno, NV8 miles east of the fire
• Golden Valley, NV9 miles northeast of the fire
• Lemmon Valley, NV10 miles northeast of the fire
• Cold Springs, NV10 miles north of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.