Thatcher Mountain Fire
The Thatcher Mountain Fire burned 2,100 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 1995. It was discovered on July 18, 1995.
- Size
- 2,100 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,217 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.673, -112.325.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,100 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,217 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4168011233019950718
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_39195
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
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.