Hiker Fire
The Hiker Fire burned 1,421 acres in Utah, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 19, 1988.
- Size
- 1,421 acres
- Ignition
- June 19, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,421 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.366, -113.005.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,421 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,503 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 19, 1988
- State
- Utah
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- UTZIP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-UTZIP-000017
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3736611300419880619
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 198811
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whiterocks Fire | 18,876 | Sep 7, 1988 | |
| Affleck Park Fire | 5,740 | Sep 2, 1988 | |
| Beryl Fire | 3,053 | Jul 6, 1988 | |
| Powder Mountain Fire | 3,018 | Aug 24, 1988 | |
| E Grassy Fire | 2,452 | Jul 25, 1988 | |
| Kanosh Fire | 2,057 | Jul 26, 1988 | |
| Green River Fire | 1,925 | Jul 23, 1988 | |
| Red Mountain Fire | 1,695 | Jul 16, 1988 | |
| Wallsburg Ridge Fire | 1,127 | ||
| Twist Canyon Fire | 1,078 | Jul 22, 1988 | |
| So Marble Fire | 1,034 | Jul 25, 1988 |
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.