Flat Fire
The Flat Fire burned 5,425 acres in Utah, in 1997. It was discovered on July 15, 1997, and contained on July 19, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,425 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 1997
- Contained
- July 19, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,827 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.566, -112.148.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,425 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,827 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,505 acres
- Discovered
- July 15, 1997, 4:51 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 19, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Richfield Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-UTCCD-013041
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3854811213319970715
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-13041
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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.