Chaos Fire
The Chaos Fire burned 9,682 acres in Utah, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to August 8, 1986.
- Size
- 9,682 acres
- Ignition
- August 8, 1986
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,682 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.895, -112.581.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,682 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,684 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 8, 1986
- State
- Utah
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3989511258119860808
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Base Level
- Note on the perimeter
- From MTBS data. Fire ID: BLM-UTSLD-R002-19860808
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Utah in 198612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twinpeaks Fire | 34,622 | Jul 4, 1986 | |
| Hose Lay Fire | 12,179 | Aug 10, 1986 | |
| Oak Grove Fire | 8,531 | Jun 19, 1986 | |
| Wide Canyon Fire | 7,692 | Sep 8, 1986 | |
| Widecanyon Fire | 7,519 | Jul 3, 1986 | |
| Clay Springs Fire | 7,272 | Sep 7, 1986 | |
| Fool Creek Fire | 7,267 | Sep 7, 1986 | |
| Davis Knol Fire | 5,846 | Aug 16, 1986 | |
| Sand Mtn Fire | 5,587 | Jun 25, 1986 | |
| Tabernacle Fire | 5,069 | Jun 4, 1986 | |
| Rockwellii Fire | 4,271 | Aug 8, 1986 | |
| Cristine Fire | 3,551 | Aug 8, 1986 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.