Wildfires of 2000

Oldroyd Complex (Mona West) Fire

2000Juab County, UtahWildfire

The Oldroyd Complex (Mona West) Fire burned 33,838 acres in Juab County, Utah, in 2000. It was discovered on July 27, 2000, and contained on September 1, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
33,838 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2000
Contained
September 1, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 28,750 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.815, -111.916.

The record

Reported final size
33,838 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
28,750 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2000, 3:25 p.m. local time
Contained
September 1, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Utah
County
Juab County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Richfield Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Part of
Oldroyd Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3983011198820000727
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-98204

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
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
Borrow Pit Fire3,905Jul 5, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Utah fire history

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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.