Pahcoon Fire
The Pahcoon Fire burned 2,250 acres in Utah, in 1997. It was discovered on July 20, 1997, and contained on July 23, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,250 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 1997
- Contained
- July 23, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,292 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.207, -113.834.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,250 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,292 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,250 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 1997, 4:13 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 23, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Cedar City Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-UTCCD-012885
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3722511386419970720
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-12885
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 | |
| 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.