Baccarat Fire
The Baccarat Fire was reported on October 4, 2020 in Washoe County, Nevada and burned 10,500 acres. It was declared out on October 19, 2020.
- Size
- 10,500 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- October 4, 2020
- Personnel
- 74
Map
Perimeter mapped February 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM PST, 10,456 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 39.741, -119.968.
The incident
- Size
- 10,500 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- October 4, 2020 at 6:55 PM PDT
- Contained
- October 8, 2020 at 5:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- October 11, 2020 at 3:30 PM PDT
- Declared out
- October 19, 2020 at 6:00 AM PDT
- Cause
- Unknown, Other Human Cause, Other, Unknown
- Location
- 5 miles NE of Stead, NV
- County
- Washoe County
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city reported
- Stead
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 74
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $2,400,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-NVCCD-030788
- IRWIN identifier
- A3E0E911-3411-46A6-8928-97727DB86BB9
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Cold Springs, NV covers the area today.
Nearby
- Cold Springs, NV4 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Lemmon Valley, NV10 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Golden Valley, NV11 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Sun Valley, NV14 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Spanish Springs, NV15 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Verdi, NV15 miles south of the fire’s origin
Nevada wildfires today Wildfires of 2020 All current fires
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 7, 2021 at 9:21 AM PST. Identifier 2020-NVCCD-030788.