Dirty Heat Fire
The Dirty Heat Fire burned 1,500 acres in Cache County, Utah, in 1997. It was discovered on March 26, 1997.
- Size
- 1,500 acres
- Discovered
- March 26, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,648 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.939, -111.982.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,648 acres
- Discovered
- March 26, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Cache County
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4192611199619970326
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- UT_0476-97
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 |
| Cogswell Point Fire | 4,383 | May 11, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,435 | Aug 23, 1997 | |
| Pahcoon Fire | 2,250 | Jul 20, 1997 | Natural |
| Dugway Mountain Fire | 2,250 | Jul 31, 1997 | Natural |
| Railroad 1 Fire | 1,337 | Jun 29, 1997 | Human |
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.