Pocket Mesa Prescribed Fire
The Pocket Mesa Prescribed Fire burned 1,603 acres in Utah, in 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to March 22, 1999.
- Size
- 1,603 acres
- Ignition
- March 22, 1999
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,603 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.361, -113.053.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,603 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 22, 1999
- State
- Utah
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3735711305719990322
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- NPS Fire perimeter was used available in NPS Wildland fire feature server and as appropriate fire perimeter was further revised based on the visible fire/burn scar in post fire image, perimeter image and dNBR. Mapped as IA due to dates of scenes selecte
Other large fires in Utah in 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Railroad Fire | 58,707 | Jul 2, 1999 | Human |
| West Mountain II Fire | 8,826 | Jul 2, 1999 | Human |
| Peterson Fire | 4,500 | Aug 2, 1999 | Natural |
| Clay Pit Fire | 4,367 | Aug 14, 1999 | Human |
| Rush Fire | 4,101 | Jul 2, 1999 | Natural |
| Eagle Canyon Fire | 3,744 | Jul 24, 1999 | Human |
| Dry Canyon Fire | 3,503 | Aug 16, 1999 | Natural |
| Little Hole Fire | 3,216 | Jul 1, 1999 | Natural |
| Cedar Valley Fire | 3,200 | Jun 25, 1999 | Human |
| Pony Road Fire | 2,528 | Jun 23, 1999 | Human |
| Avocet Fire | 2,447 | Mar 30, 1999 | |
| Lostpeak Fire | 2,139 | Mar 19, 1999 |
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. 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.