Milford Pass Fire
The Milford Pass Fire burned 9,063 acres in Utah, in 1995. It was discovered on July 8, 1995, and contained on July 11, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 9,063 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 1995
- Contained
- July 11, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,136 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.361, -112.912.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,063 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,136 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,092 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 1995, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 11, 1995, 5:00 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
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Pinnaclepk
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1995-UTCCD-025068
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3854511284619950708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-25068
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 199512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redlam Fire | 35,000 | Aug 27, 1995 | Human |
| Puddle Valley Fire | 30,720 | Aug 8, 1995 | Natural |
| Cedar Pocket Fire | 12,641 | Jul 30, 1995 | Natural |
| Dugway 3 Fire | 11,610 | Sep 1, 1995 | Natural |
| Lava Ridge Fire | 11,453 | Sep 17, 1995 | Natural |
| Turkey Fire | 9,047 | Aug 10, 1995 | Natural |
| Terra Fire | 7,063 | Jul 11, 1995 | Human |
| Camp Williams Fire | 6,000 | Aug 7, 1995 | |
| Triangle Fire | 5,343 | Jul 30, 1995 | Natural |
| Stansbury Island Fire | 4,840 | Jul 26, 1995 | Human |
| Locomotive Fire | 4,720 | Aug 5, 1995 | |
| Valley City 2 Fire | 3,500 | Jun 14, 1995 | Natural |
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.