Sheep Creek Wfu Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,524 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.697, -114.724.

Reported final size

2,500 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

2,524 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

2,523 acres

Discovered

August 31, 2007, 1:48 p.m. local time

Contained

October 19, 2007, 10:00 a.m. local time

Cause

Natural

State

Nevada

County

White Pine County

Land ownership at origin

Bureau of Land Management

Reporting unit

Ely District Office

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

NVELD

Incident type

Wildland fire use

Unique fire identifier

2007-NVELD-000183

MTBS fire identifier

NV3871911472320070831

MTBS assessment

Extended

Fire occurrence record

W-552544

Note on the perimeter

Fire perimeter obtained from MTBS - S. Levitt 5/6/2016

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: 8, from September 15, 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 structures threatened at once

1

Most personnel assigned

80 on September 18, 2007

Most aircraft assigned

1

Cost reported by the teams

$200,000, in 2007 dollars

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Closed Timber Litter

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 500 acres, on September 16, 2007.

Every fire of 2007 Nevada fire history

• Ely, NV39 miles north of the fire
• McGill, NV49 miles north of the fire
• Pioche, NV55 miles south of the fire
• Caliente, NV76 miles south 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.