Pequop Springs Fire
The Pequop Springs Fire burned 1,299 acres in Elko County, Nevada, in 2007. It was discovered on July 14, 2007, and contained on July 15, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,299 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2007
- Contained
- July 15, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,620 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.221, -114.570.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,299 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,620 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,299 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2007, 5:13 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 15, 2007, 7:38 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Elko County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Elko District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVEKD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-NVEKD-000723
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4122911454220070714
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-547311
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from July 14, 2007 to October 19, 2007. 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 personnel assigned
- 46 on July 14, 2007
- Most aircraft assigned
- 8
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Brush (2 feet)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 299 acres, on July 15, 2007.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2007 | 1,000 | |
| Jul 15, 2007 | 1,299 | +299 |
| Jul 17, 2007 | 1,299 | |
| Oct 19, 2007 | 1,299 |
Other large fires in Nevada in 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winecup Complex (West Fork) Fire | 154,973 | Jul 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Tungsten Fire | 61,951 | Jul 6, 2007 | Natural |
| Highway 93 Complex (West Basin) Fire | 60,490 | Jul 6, 2007 | Natural |
| Murphy Complex (Scott Creek) Fire | 58,451 | Jul 16, 2007 | Natural |
| Antelope Complex | 40,012 | Jul 17, 2007 | Natural |
| Raven Fire | 40,012 | ||
| Hepworth Complex (Hepworth) Fire | 38,068 | Jul 16, 2007 | Natural |
| Red House Complex | 32,896 | Jul 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Dunphy/Sansineana Fire | 29,021 | ||
| Elephant Head Fire | 28,154 | ||
| Boo Hoo Fire | 27,133 | ||
| Cain Mt Fire | 25,384 |
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. 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.