Antelope 4 Fire
The Antelope 4 Fire burned 5,000 acres in Davis County, Utah, in 2001. It was discovered on July 5, 2001, and contained on July 8, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2001
- Contained
- July 8, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,599 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.982, -112.231.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,599 acres
- Discovered
- July 5, 2001, 6:45 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 8, 2001, 9:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Davis County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4097211222620010705
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-102061
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 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 40,000 | Jul 14, 2001 | Natural |
| Beef Hollow Fire | 9,000 | Jul 16, 2001 | Human |
| Mollie Fire | 8,021 | Aug 18, 2001 | Human |
| Keg Mountain Fire | 4,709 | Jul 16, 2001 | Natural |
| Nebo Creek Fire | 4,378 | Jul 2, 2001 | Natural |
| Timpie Fire | 4,229 | Jun 8, 2001 | Human |
| Little Field Fire | 3,976 | Jul 14, 2001 | Natural |
| Thiokol Fire | 3,000 | Jul 14, 2001 | Natural |
| Birch Fire | 2,681 | Sep 27, 2001 | Human |
| Ibapah Fire | 2,274 | Jul 26, 2001 | Natural |
| 8 Mile Fire | 2,068 | Jun 9, 2001 | Natural |
| Simpson Bu Fire | 2,000 | Jun 3, 2001 | 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.