Wildfires of 2009

Trailer 1 Fire

2009Lassen County, NevadaWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Hoyt Fire10,670Aug 20, 2009Human
Red Rock Fire10,549Jul 15, 2009Human
Wna 11 Fire2,266Aug 1, 2009Natural

Every fire of 2009 Nevada fire history

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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.