Rr 1 Fire
The Rr 1 Fire burned 2,000 acres in Utah, in 1994. It was discovered on June 24, 1994, and contained on June 24, 1994. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 2,000 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 1994
- Contained
- June 24, 1994
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,509 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.050, -109.117.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,509 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,268 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 1994, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 24, 1994, 9:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Moab Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTMOD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1994-UTMOD-00R750
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3905010911719940624
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-31363
- Note on the perimeter
- 1994-UTMOD-00R750
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 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elevator Fire | 31,395 | Jul 27, 1994 | Natural |
| Posthollow Fire | 13,235 | Jul 2, 1994 | Natural |
| E Harker Fire | 12,837 | Aug 4, 1994 | Natural |
| Black Willow Fire | 12,031 | Aug 2, 1994 | Natural |
| Milfordben Fire | 10,700 | Jul 30, 1994 | Natural |
| Dry Canyon 2 Fire | 10,500 | Aug 4, 1994 | Natural |
| Antelopemt Fire | 8,600 | Jul 27, 1994 | Natural |
| Round Top Fire | 8,000 | Jun 20, 1994 | Human |
| Simpson Bt Fire | 7,750 | Jun 15, 1994 | Human |
| Hansel Valley Mt Fire | 7,680 | Jul 5, 1994 | |
| Whiterocks Fire | 6,500 | May 26, 1994 | Natural |
| Johnson Canyon Fire | 5,066 | Jul 29, 1994 |
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.