Wildfires of 2000

Dividend Fire

2000Utah County, UtahWildfire

The Dividend Fire burned 1,154 acres in Utah County, Utah, in 2000. It was discovered on July 4, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,154 acres
Discovered
July 4, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,288 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.974, -112.029.

The record

Reported final size
1,154 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,288 acres
Discovered
July 4, 2000, 1:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Utah
County
Utah County
Reporting unit
Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3996711201120000704
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2000UTFFSL3043-2000

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

FireAcresStartCause
Salt Lake Desert Complex (Aragonite) Fire39,937Aug 1, 2000Natural
Oldroyd Complex (Mona West) Fire33,838Jul 27, 2000Natural
Castlerock Fire16,116Jul 26, 2000Natural
Oldroyd Complex (Broad) Fire14,956Jul 26, 2000Natural
Hogup Fire14,355Jul 12, 2000Natural
Adelaide Complex (Morning Dove) Fire11,540Jul 26, 2000Natural
Swains Fire7,898Aug 12, 2000Human
South Rose Ranch Fire5,943Jul 17, 2000Natural
10 Mile Pass Fire5,867Aug 6, 2000Human
Brown Springs Fire4,334Jun 10, 2000Human
Chournos Fire3,920Aug 5, 2000Natural
Molly Fire3,910Jul 16, 2000Natural

Every fire of 2000 Utah fire history

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.