Pole Canyon Fire
The Pole Canyon Fire burned 3,200 acres in Utah County, Utah, in 1992. It was discovered on September 13, 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to September 14, 1992.
- Size
- 3,200 acres
- Discovered
- September 13, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,946 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.327, -112.130.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,946 acres
- Discovered
- September 13, 1992
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 14, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Utah County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4035011216519920914
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_65892
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Fire | 4,600 | Jul 23, 1992 | |
| Deseret/Spring Canyon Fire | 4,160 | Aug 1, 1992 | |
| Butch Mills N Promontory Fire | 3,520 | Aug 21, 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.