Triangle Fire
The Triangle Fire burned 5,343 acres in Utah, in 1995. It was discovered on July 30, 1995, and contained on August 4, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,343 acres
- Discovered
- July 30, 1995
- Contained
- August 4, 1995
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,686 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.900, -109.051.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,343 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,686 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,338 acres
- Discovered
- July 30, 1995, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 4, 1995, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Moab Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- COGRD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3892910908019950730
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-25234
- Note on the perimeter
- Full Suppression, Aerial Seeded/Chain
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 | |
| 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.