Uinta Canyon Fire
The Uinta Canyon Fire burned 5,829 acres in Utah, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to July 3, 1989.
- Size
- 5,829 acres
- Ignition
- July 3, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,829 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.651, -110.133.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,829 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,477 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 3, 1989
- State
- Utah
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTASF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4065211013319890703
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
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 198912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diamondpk Fire | 15,683 | Jul 1, 1989 | |
| Uinta Flat Fire | 7,708 | Jul 15, 1989 | |
| Ryan Creek Fire | 3,842 | Jul 8, 1989 | |
| Rattlesnak Fire | 3,161 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Box Elder Fire | 2,967 | Aug 21, 1989 | |
| Six Mile Fire | 1,989 | ||
| White Rock Fire | 1,666 | Oct 11, 1989 | |
| Ltl Sg Vly Fire | 1,448 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Rough Canyon Fire | 1,435 | ||
| Pass Fire | 1,280 | Jul 26, 1989 | |
| Chalk Creek Fire | 1,245 | Aug 4, 1989 | |
| Lakeside Fire | 1,139 | Aug 14, 1989 |
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.