Railroad 1 Fire
The Railroad 1 Fire burned 1,337 acres in Utah, in 1997. It was discovered on June 29, 1997, and contained on July 1, 1997. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 1,337 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 1997
- Contained
- July 1, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,910 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.238, -112.391.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,337 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,910 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 1997, 3:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 1, 1997, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4025511238119970629
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-13189
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 |
| Dirty Heat Fire | 1,500 | Mar 26, 1997 |
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.