Minersville Fire
The Minersville Fire burned 4,052 acres in Utah, in 1998. It was discovered on July 4, 1998, and contained on July 7, 1998. The cause was recorded as fireworks.
- Size
- 4,052 acres
- Discovered
- July 4, 1998
- Contained
- July 7, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,329 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.215, -112.856.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,052 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,329 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,061 acres
- Discovered
- July 4, 1998, 2:20 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 7, 1998, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Fireworks
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Cedar City Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1998-UTCCD-008507
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3824711283019980704
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-8507
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 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tekoi Fire | 20,700 | Jul 13, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 16,467 | Jul 18, 1998 | |
| Topliff Fire | 13,926 | Jul 20, 1998 | Natural |
| George Fire | 7,629 | Jul 18, 1998 | Natural |
| Faust Fire | 6,550 | Jul 3, 1998 | Human |
| Bulldog Fire | 6,375 | Jun 27, 1998 | Human |
| Muddy Canyon Fire | 3,976 | Aug 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Salt Lake Complex (White Rock) Fire | 3,083 | Jul 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Hovenweep Fire | 2,455 | Jul 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Barn Fire | 1,815 | Jul 13, 1998 | Human |
| Garn Fire | 1,750 | Aug 9, 1998 | Natural |
| Dugway Fire | 1,415 | Aug 21, 1998 | Natural |
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.