Pioneer Fire
The Pioneer Fire burned 4,600 acres in Summit County, Utah, in 1992. It was discovered on July 23, 1992.
- Size
- 4,600 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,968 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.845, -111.523.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,968 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Summit County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4083311142519920723
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_68292
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deseret/Spring Canyon Fire | 4,160 | Aug 1, 1992 | |
| Butch Mills N Promontory Fire | 3,520 | Aug 21, 1992 | |
| Pole Canyon Fire | 3,200 | Sep 13, 1992 | |
| Little Mtn Fire | 3,040 | Jul 20, 1992 | |
| Sand Mtn E Fire | 2,750 | Aug 20, 1992 | Natural |
| East Lynndyl Fire | 2,000 | Aug 19, 1992 | |
| Buckeye Fire | 1,650 | Aug 11, 1992 | Human |
| Clark Canyon Fire | 1,000 | Sep 24, 1992 | |
| Monument Canyon Fire | 750 | Aug 20, 1992 | Natural |
Nearby
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.