Wildfires of 1993

Bulldog Fire

1993UtahWildfire

The Bulldog Fire burned 978 acres in Utah, in 1993. It was discovered on August 1, 1993, and contained on August 3, 1993. The cause was recorded as fireworks.

Size
978 acres
Discovered
August 1, 1993
Contained
August 3, 1993
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,152 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.017, -113.851.

The record

Reported final size
978 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,152 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
989 acres
Discovered
August 1, 1993, 5:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 3, 1993, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Fireworks
State
Utah
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Cedar City Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
UTCCD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1993-UTCCD-036054
MTBS fire identifier
UT3701311385619930801
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-36054

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 19935

FireAcresStartCause
Bottom Fire3,182Jul 9, 1993Natural
White Rock Fire3,069Jul 15, 1993Human
Mill Creek Fire2,181Jun 21, 1993Natural
Avocet Fire2,111Aug 17, 1993
Flat Canyon Fire1,500Sep 11, 1993Human

Every fire of 1993 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. 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.