Borrow Pit Fire
The Borrow Pit Fire burned 3,905 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2000. It was discovered on July 5, 2000, and contained on July 10, 2000. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 3,905 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2000
- Contained
- July 10, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,183 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.628, -112.270.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,905 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,183 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2000, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 10, 2000, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Utah
- County
- Tooele County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4066811223520000705
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-94828
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 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salt Lake Desert Complex (Aragonite) Fire | 39,937 | Aug 1, 2000 | Natural |
| Oldroyd Complex (Mona West) Fire | 33,838 | Jul 27, 2000 | Natural |
| Castlerock Fire | 16,116 | Jul 26, 2000 | Natural |
| Oldroyd Complex (Broad) Fire | 14,956 | Jul 26, 2000 | Natural |
| Hogup Fire | 14,355 | Jul 12, 2000 | Natural |
| Adelaide Complex (Morning Dove) Fire | 11,540 | Jul 26, 2000 | Natural |
| Swains Fire | 7,898 | Aug 12, 2000 | Human |
| South Rose Ranch Fire | 5,943 | Jul 17, 2000 | Natural |
| 10 Mile Pass Fire | 5,867 | Aug 6, 2000 | Human |
| Brown Springs Fire | 4,334 | Jun 10, 2000 | Human |
| Chournos Fire | 3,920 | Aug 5, 2000 | Natural |
| Molly Fire | 3,910 | Jul 16, 2000 | Natural |
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.