Wasatch Mountain Fire
The Wasatch Mountain Fire burned 3,161 acres in Utah, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to August 26, 1990.
- Size
- 3,161 acres
- Ignition
- August 26, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,161 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.500, -111.509.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,161 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,962 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 26, 1990
- State
- Utah
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4033411101219900826
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Wasatch Mountain State Park
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherry Fire | 5,231 | Jul 29, 1990 | |
| Florence Fire | 5,120 | Jul 31, 1990 | |
| Big Hollow Fire | 4,858 | Aug 9, 1990 | |
| Long Bench Fire | 1,515 | ||
| Johnsonpas Fire | 1,446 | Aug 9, 1990 |
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.