Timber Peak Fire
The Timber Peak Fire was reported on August 29, 2017 in Nye County, Nevada and burned 10,000 acres. It was declared out on November 15, 2017. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 10,000 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 29, 2017
- Personnel
- 4
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 37.042, -116.488.
The incident
- Size
- 10,000 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 29, 2017 at 11:39 PM PDT
- Contained
- September 4, 2017 at 6:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- November 15, 2017 at 6:00 PM PST
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Dept. of Energy, Nevada National Security Site lands, south of Timber Peak
- County
- Nye County
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city reported
- MERCURY, NV
- Protecting agency
- NNSA
- Personnel assigned
- 4
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $500,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-NVNTE-170481
- IRWIN identifier
- F544C9FF-82C1-4725-8084-D9FE3139E883
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Beatty, NV covers the area today.
Nearby
- Beatty, NV18 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Death Valley, CA58 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Pahrump, NV64 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Alamo, NV76 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Tonopah, NV82 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Summerlin South, NV91 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated January 24, 2020 at 7:51 AM PST. Identifier 2017-NVNTE-170481.