Buffalo Fire
The Buffalo Fire burned 2,478 acres in Humboldt County, Nevada, in 2012. It was discovered on June 29, 2012, and contained on July 2, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,478 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2012
- Contained
- July 2, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,510 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.730, -117.321.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,478 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,510 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,474 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2012, 9:53 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 2, 2012, 10:40 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- 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
- 2012-NVWID-020105
- MTBS fire identifier
- NV4073011732120120629
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-637887
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holloway Fire | 461,047 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Willow Fire | 42,780 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Long Canyon Fire | 36,847 | Aug 10, 2012 | Natural |
| Gilbert Fire | 31,503 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Del Fire | 23,680 | Aug 4, 2012 | Natural |
| Mustang Fire | 19,323 | Aug 10, 2012 | Natural |
| Wall Fire | 17,200 | May 16, 2012 | Human |
| 20-MILE Fire | 13,149 | Jul 12, 2012 | Natural |
| Hanson Fire | 12,469 | Aug 10, 2012 | Natural |
| Fraiser Fire | 12,091 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| North Schell Fire | 12,046 | Jun 17, 2012 | Natural |
| Browns Gulch Fire | 11,822 | Aug 8, 2012 | 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.