Brown Fire
The Brown Fire was reported on June 24, 2020 in White Pine County, Nevada and burned 8,268 acres. It was declared out on July 12, 2020.
- Size
- 8,268 acres
- Contained
- 99%
- Discovered
- June 24, 2020
- Personnel
- 15
Map
Perimeter mapped May 4, 2021 at 3:50 PM PDT, 8,266 acres (gps-flight). Point of origin 38.833, -114.988.
The incident
- Size
- 8,268 acres
- Containment
- 99%
- Discovered
- June 24, 2020 at 3:04 PM PDT
- Contained
- June 30, 2020 at 8:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- July 5, 2020 at 8:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- July 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Unknown, Investigated but Undetermined
- Location
- 2 miles south of the town of Lund, Nevada along Highway 318.
- County
- White Pine County
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city reported
- Lund, NV
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 15
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $860,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-NVELD-040052
- IRWIN identifier
- 201F221E-4F95-4393-A532-7407943A55FD
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Ely, 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 July 27, 2020 at 3:56 PM PDT. Identifier 2020-NVELD-040052.