Railroad Fire
The Railroad Fire burned 58,707 acres in Juab County, Utah, in 1999. It was discovered on July 2, 1999, and contained on July 2, 1999. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 58,707 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1999
- Contained
- July 2, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 64,561 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.667, -112.285.
The record
- Reported final size
- 58,707 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 64,561 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1999, 2:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 2, 1999, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Utah
- County
- Juab County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Richfield Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Part of
- Railroad Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3972411225419990702
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-1576
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| West Mountain 3 Fire | 2,059 | Jun 25, 1999 | Human |
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.