Corta Fire
The Corta Fire was reported on August 4, 2019 in Elko County, Nevada and burned 16,526 acres. It was declared out on September 6, 2019. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 16,526 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 4, 2019
- Personnel
- 19
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 40.312, -115.619.
The incident
- Size
- 16,526 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 4, 2019 at 3:36 PM PDT
- Contained
- August 19, 2019 at 11:04 AM PDT
- Controlled
- August 26, 2019 at 12:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- September 6, 2019 at 12:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Natural, Lightning
- Location
- Approximately 8 miles southeast of Jiggs, NV
- County
- Elko County
- State
- Nevada
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 19
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $3,320,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-NVEKD-010190
- IRWIN identifier
- FFB76BC8-8D44-4C76-9EBF-8C21A102BEEA
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Spring Creek, NV covers the area today.
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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 October 10, 2019 at 2:47 PM PDT. Identifier 2019-NVEKD-010190.