Wildfires of 2009

Wna 11 Fire

2009NevadaWildfire

The Wna 11 Fire burned 2,266 acres in Nevada, in 2009. It was discovered on August 1, 2009, and contained on August 4, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,266 acres
Discovered
August 1, 2009
Contained
August 4, 2009
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,601 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.350, -119.730.

The record

Reported final size
2,266 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,601 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,266 acres
Discovered
August 1, 2009, 7:54 p.m. local time
Contained
August 4, 2009, 9:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nevada
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Western Nevada Agency
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWNA
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NV4021111945420090801
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-595663
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
Trailer 1 Fire1,349Jul 15, 2009Human

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.