West Mountain II Fire
The West Mountain II Fire burned 1,316 acres in Utah, in 1998. It was discovered on September 18, 1998, and contained on September 20, 1998. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 1,316 acres
- Discovered
- September 18, 1998
- Contained
- September 20, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,266 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.042, -111.803.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,316 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,266 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 648 acres
- Discovered
- September 18, 1998, 6:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 20, 1998, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Other Federal
- Reporting unit
- Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTUWF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4006211180519980918
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-334311
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
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 |
| Minersville Fire | 4,052 | Jul 4, 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 |
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.