Wildfires of 2011

Eden Valley Fire

2011Humboldt County, NevadaWildfire

The Eden Valley Fire burned 34,485 acres in Humboldt County, Nevada, in 2011. It was discovered on September 30, 2011, and contained on October 4, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
34,485 acres
Discovered
September 30, 2011
Contained
October 4, 2011
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 35,321 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.097, -117.410.

The record

Reported final size
34,485 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
35,321 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
34,485 acres
Discovered
September 30, 2011, 5:47 p.m. local time
Contained
October 4, 2011, 11:55 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nevada
County
Humboldt County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Winnemucca District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVWID
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2011-NVWID-000372
MTBS fire identifier
NV4109711741020110930
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-629910

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 201112

FireAcresStartCause
Indian Creek Fire110,827Sep 30, 2011Natural
Chukkar Canyon Fire48,672Sep 30, 2011Natural
Izzenhood Fire42,157Sep 30, 2011Natural
Hot Springs Fire33,794Sep 30, 2011Natural
Last Chance Fire21,565Aug 6, 2011Human
China Garden Fire18,618Sep 30, 2011Natural
Vigo Fire12,087Aug 29, 2011Natural
Big Antelope Fire11,606Oct 1, 2011Natural
Nixon Fire11,195Jul 2, 2011Human
Susie Fire6,641Aug 4, 2011Natural
Spring Creek Fire6,075Aug 7, 2011Natural
Tom Basin Fire5,125Sep 30, 2011Natural

Every fire of 2011 Nevada fire history

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.