Meadow Valley Fire
The Meadow Valley Fire was reported on July 7, 2020 in Lincoln County, Nevada and burned 59,265 acres. It was declared out on July 27, 2020. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 59,265 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 7, 2020
- Personnel
- 23
Map
Perimeter mapped July 12, 2020 at 8:00 PM PDT, 59,291 acres (image interpretation). Point of origin 37.163, -114.610.
The incident
- Size
- 59,265 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 7, 2020 at 6:29 PM PDT
- Contained
- July 14, 2020 at 4:30 PM PDT
- Controlled
- July 19, 2020 at 6:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- July 27, 2020 at 2:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Human, Other Human Cause
- Location
- 25 miles south of Caliente, Nevada in the Meadow Valley Wilderness
- County
- Lincoln County
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city reported
- Caliente
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 23
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $2,800,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-NVELD-040076
- IRWIN identifier
- 6C72B1FE-3B0C-490D-9E6B-08B6490644D3
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Caliente, NV covers the area today.
Nearby
- Caliente, NV32 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Moapa Town, NV33 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Alamo, NV34 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Bunkerville, NV38 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Mesquite, NV39 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Moapa Valley, NV41 miles south 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 August 12, 2020 at 3:54 PM PDT. Identifier 2020-NVELD-040076.