Wildfires of 2012

Tre Fire

2012Douglas County, NevadaWildfire

The Tre Fire burned 7,153 acres in Douglas County, Nevada, in 2012. It was discovered on May 22, 2012, and contained on June 2, 2012. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
7,153 acres
Discovered
May 22, 2012
Contained
June 2, 2012
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,234 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.760, -119.524.

The record

Reported final size
7,153 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
7,234 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,073 acres
Discovered
May 22, 2012, 1:00 p.m. local time
Contained
June 2, 2012, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Nevada
County
Douglas County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Carson City District Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
NVEFKX
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2012-NVCCD-030118
MTBS fire identifier
NV3874311953520120522
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-639007
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 201212

FireAcresStartCause
Holloway Fire461,047Aug 5, 2012Natural
Willow Fire42,780Aug 5, 2012Natural
Long Canyon Fire36,847Aug 10, 2012Natural
Gilbert Fire31,503Aug 5, 2012Natural
Del Fire23,680Aug 4, 2012Natural
Mustang Fire19,323Aug 10, 2012Natural
Wall Fire17,200May 16, 2012Human
20-MILE Fire13,149Jul 12, 2012Natural
Hanson Fire12,469Aug 10, 2012Natural
Fraiser Fire12,091Aug 5, 2012Natural
North Schell Fire12,046Jun 17, 2012Natural
Browns Gulch Fire11,822Aug 8, 2012Natural

Every fire of 2012 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.