Perry Canyon Fire
The Perry Canyon Fire burned 3,090 acres in Utah, in 1995. It was discovered on August 16, 1995, and contained on August 19, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,090 acres
- Discovered
- August 16, 1995
- Contained
- August 19, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,122 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.437, -112.020.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,090 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,122 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,121 acres
- Discovered
- August 16, 1995, 6:40 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 19, 1995, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTUWF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4144711201519950816
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-305568
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Base Level
- Note on the perimeter
- From MTBS data.
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 |
| Milford Pass Fire | 9,063 | Jul 8, 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 |
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.