Trailer 1 Fire
The Trailer 1 Fire burned 1,349 acres in Lassen County, Nevada, in 2009. It was discovered on July 15, 2009, and contained on July 24, 2009. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,349 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 2009
- Contained
- July 24, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,443 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.910, -120.013.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,349 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,443 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,349 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 2009, 2:07 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 24, 2009, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Nevada
- County
- Lassen County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Carson City District Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- NVCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-NVCCD-000659
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV3992111999320090715
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-596052
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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 20093
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoyt Fire | 10,670 | Aug 20, 2009 | Human |
| Red Rock Fire | 10,549 | Jul 15, 2009 | Human |
| Wna 11 Fire | 2,266 | Aug 1, 2009 | Natural |
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.