Mill Creek Fire
The Mill Creek Fire burned 2,181 acres in Utah, in 1993. It was discovered on June 21, 1993, and contained on June 23, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,181 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 1993
- Contained
- June 23, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,461 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.167, -113.517.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,181 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,461 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,248 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 1993, 12:11 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 23, 1993, 6:40 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- 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-036030
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3718411353919930621
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-36030
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 |
| Avocet Fire | 2,111 | Aug 17, 1993 | |
| Flat Canyon Fire | 1,500 | Sep 11, 1993 | Human |
| 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.