Wildfires of 1992

Little Mtn Fire

1992Box Elder County, UtahWildfire

The Little Mtn Fire burned 3,040 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 1992. It was discovered on July 20, 1992.

Size
3,040 acres
Discovered
July 20, 1992
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,976 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.718, -112.230.

The record

Reported final size
3,040 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,976 acres
Discovered
July 20, 1992
Cause
Undetermined
State
Utah
County
Box Elder County
Reporting unit
Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT4159911222719920720
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
UT_55892

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 19929

FireAcresStartCause
Pioneer Fire4,600Jul 23, 1992
Deseret/Spring Canyon Fire4,160Aug 1, 1992
Butch Mills N Promontory Fire3,520Aug 21, 1992
Pole Canyon Fire3,200Sep 13, 1992
Sand Mtn E Fire2,750Aug 20, 1992Natural
East Lynndyl Fire2,000Aug 19, 1992
Buckeye Fire1,650Aug 11, 1992Human
Clark Canyon Fire1,000Sep 24, 1992
Monument Canyon Fire750Aug 20, 1992Natural

Every fire of 1992 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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.