Cherrywood Fire
The Cherrywood Fire was reported on May 17, 2021 in Nye County, Nevada and burned 26,431 acres. It was declared out on June 12, 2021. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 26,431 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 17, 2021
- Personnel
- 2
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
Perimeter mapped May 24, 2021 at 1:58 PM PDT, 26,432 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 37.000, -116.416.
The incident
- Size
- 26,431 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- May 17, 2021 at 4:59 PM PDT
- Contained
- June 12, 2021 at 4:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- June 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- June 12, 2021 at 6:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Natural, Lightning
- Location
- 25 miles Northwest of Mercury, NV
- County
- Nye County
- State
- Nevada
- Nearest city reported
- Mercury
- Protecting agency
- NNSA
- Jurisdiction
- NNSA
- Land ownership at origin
- DOE
- Personnel assigned
- 2
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $2,521,806
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2021-NVNTE-500527
- IRWIN identifier
- 1EA57600-9731-46D7-9AE1-B576DC679E05
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Beatty, NV covers the area today.
Nearby
- Beatty, NV20 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Death Valley, CA57 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Pahrump, NV60 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Alamo, NV73 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Summerlin South, NV86 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Tonopah, NV86 miles northwest 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 2, 2021 at 6:18 PM PDT. Identifier 2021-NVNTE-500527.