Wildfires of 1986

Oak Grove Fire

1986UtahWildfire

The Oak Grove Fire burned 8,531 acres in Utah, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to June 19, 1986.

Size
8,531 acres
Ignition
June 19, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,531 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.321, -113.408.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,531 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,778 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 19, 1986
State
Utah
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
UTDIF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3732111340819860619
MTBS assessment
Extended

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

FireAcresStartCause
Twinpeaks Fire34,622Jul 4, 1986
Hose Lay Fire12,179Aug 10, 1986
Chaos Fire9,682Aug 8, 1986
Wide Canyon Fire7,692Sep 8, 1986
Widecanyon Fire7,519Jul 3, 1986
Clay Springs Fire7,272Sep 7, 1986
Fool Creek Fire7,267Sep 7, 1986
Davis Knol Fire5,846Aug 16, 1986
Sand Mtn Fire5,587Jun 25, 1986
Tabernacle Fire5,069Jun 4, 1986
Rockwellii Fire4,271Aug 8, 1986
Cristine Fire3,551Aug 8, 1986

Every fire of 1986 Utah fire history

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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.