Cogswell Point Fire
The Cogswell Point Fire burned 4,383 acres in Kane County, Utah, in 1997. It was discovered on May 11, 1997.
- Size
- 4,383 acres
- Discovered
- May 11, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,706 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.536, -112.912.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,383 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,706 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,385 acres
- Discovered
- May 11, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Kane County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-UTCCD-012851
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3745511290419970511
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_0209-97
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 19976
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flat Fire | 5,425 | Jul 15, 1997 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,435 | Aug 23, 1997 | |
| Pahcoon Fire | 2,250 | Jul 20, 1997 | Natural |
| Dugway Mountain Fire | 2,250 | Jul 31, 1997 | Natural |
| Dirty Heat Fire | 1,500 | Mar 26, 1997 | |
| Railroad 1 Fire | 1,337 | Jun 29, 1997 | Human |
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.