Wildfires of 1990

Cherry Fire

1990UtahWildfire

The Cherry Fire burned 5,231 acres in Utah, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 29, 1990.

Size
5,231 acres
Ignition
July 29, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,231 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.942, -112.352.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,231 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,747 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 29, 1990
State
Utah
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
UTUWF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3994511231619900729
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Remote Sensing Data - Base Level
Note on the perimeter
From MTBS data. Fire ID: BLM-UTSLD-R176-19900729

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 19905

FireAcresStartCause
Florence Fire5,120Jul 31, 1990
Big Hollow Fire4,858Aug 9, 1990
Wasatch Mountain Fire3,161Aug 26, 1990
Long Bench Fire1,515
Johnsonpas Fire1,446Aug 9, 1990

Every fire of 1990 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.