Cost of fighting wildfire

WHAT IT COSTS

It costs about $5,000 an acre to fight an average 10-acre wildfire in an urban interface area, according to Mike Dondero, chief of fire and aviation for the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. A larger fire, say 1,000 acres, would cost less - about $4,000 an acre.

"It would start to go down because you would have the same amount of resources devoted to it," Dondero said.

In a nonurban interface area - with no homes nearby - the cost of fighting a 10-acre fire would be about $1,000 an acre, he said.

Fighting a 1,000-acre fire in such an area would cost about $600 per acre.

For the complete series of stories go to:

https://www.nevadaappeal.com/wildfire