Wildfires of 1988

Kanosh Fire

1988UtahWildfire

The Kanosh Fire burned 2,057 acres in Utah, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 26, 1988.

Size
2,057 acres
Ignition
July 26, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,057 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.687, -112.717.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,057 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 26, 1988
State
Utah
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3868711271719880726
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Utah in 198811

FireAcresStartCause
Whiterocks Fire18,876Sep 7, 1988
Affleck Park Fire5,740Sep 2, 1988
Beryl Fire3,053Jul 6, 1988
Powder Mountain Fire3,018Aug 24, 1988
E Grassy Fire2,452Jul 25, 1988
Green River Fire1,925Jul 23, 1988
Red Mountain Fire1,695Jul 16, 1988
Hiker Fire1,421Jun 19, 1988
Wallsburg Ridge Fire1,127
Twist Canyon Fire1,078Jul 22, 1988
So Marble Fire1,034Jul 25, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Utah fire history

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Sources

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.