Cat Canyon Fire
The Cat Canyon Fire was reported on July 19, 2025 in Nye County, Nevada and burned 16,260 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 16,260 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 19, 2025
- Personnel
- 1
Map
Perimeter mapped August 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM PDT, 16,261 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 37.043, -116.441.
The incident
- Size
- 16,260 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 20 Miles NE from Beatty, NV
- County
- Nye County
- State
- Nevada
- Protecting agency
- NNSA
- Land ownership at origin
- DOE
- Personnel assigned
- 1
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC, Type 3 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $55,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-NVNTE-500815
- IRWIN identifier
- E65FAF9C-EA73-46D5-88C0-E34091D9780F
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from July 23, 2025 (13,955 acres) to August 11, 2025 (16,261 acres). The largest one-day growth was 1,312 acres, mapped August 4, 2025.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 23, 2025 | 13,955 | |
| July 26, 2025 | 14,733 | +778 |
| August 4, 2025 | 16,045 | +1,312 |
| August 11, 2025 | 16,261 | +216 |
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 southwest of the fire’s origin
- Death Valley, CA59 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Pahrump, NV63 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Alamo, NV74 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Tonopah, NV83 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Summerlin South, NV89 miles southeast 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 April 24, 2026 at 5:19 PM PDT. Identifier 2025-NVNTE-500815.