Flat Canyon Fire
The Flat Canyon Fire burned 1,500 acres in Utah, in 1993. It was discovered on September 11, 1993, and contained on October 8, 1993. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,500 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 1993
- Contained
- October 8, 1993
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,502 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.400, -111.138.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,502 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,779 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 1993, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 8, 1993, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Manti-Lasal National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTMLF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1993-UTMLF-000021
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3940211120719930911
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-281490
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Wildland Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom Fire | 3,182 | Jul 9, 1993 | Natural |
| White Rock Fire | 3,069 | Jul 15, 1993 | Human |
| Mill Creek Fire | 2,181 | Jun 21, 1993 | Natural |
| Avocet Fire | 2,111 | Aug 17, 1993 | |
| Bulldog Fire | 978 | Aug 1, 1993 | Human |
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. 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.