Duane Fire
The Duane Fire burned 1,150 acres in Juab County, Utah, in 1996. It was discovered on October 9, 1996.
- Size
- 1,150 acres
- Discovered
- October 9, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,339 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.768, -111.960.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,150 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,339 acres
- Discovered
- October 9, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Juab County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3977811197219961009
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_24196
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 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leamington Complex (Wash) Fire | 89,149 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| Sorenson Complex (South Twin Peaks) Fire | 41,863 | Jul 5, 1996 | Natural |
| Davis Knoll Complex (Davis Knoll) Fire | 28,540 | Jul 8, 1996 | Natural |
| Leamington Complex (Leamington) Fire | 28,442 | Aug 1, 1996 | Natural |
| Silver Hill Fire | 25,000 | Jul 3, 1996 | Natural |
| Leamington Complex (East Sage) Fire | 18,750 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| North Stansbury Complex (Teddy Bears) Fire | 18,540 | Aug 4, 1996 | Human |
| Golden Spike Fire | 16,186 | ||
| Adelaide Complex (Adalaide) Fire | 15,706 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| Cunningham Fire | 14,854 | Aug 18, 1996 | Natural |
| Little Sahara Complex (Cherry Creek) Fire | 11,482 | Jul 11, 1996 | Natural |
| Honey Boy Fire | 10,476 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
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.