Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 40,000 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2001. It was discovered on July 14, 2001, and contained on July 22, 2001. MTBS dates its ignition to July 17, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 40,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2001
- Contained
- July 22, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 38,633 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.537, -112.501.
The record
- Reported final size
- 40,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 38,633 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 38,647 acres
- Discovered
- July 14, 2001, 6:00 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 17, 2001
- Contained
- July 22, 2001, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Northwest Area
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2001-UTGSP-000002
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4152511252520010717
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2001_UT-NWS-337
- Note on the perimeter
- Fort Ranch \2001\Wildfire Final Perimeter\2001-UTNWS-UTNWS-R\DUPLICATE EVENT OR EVENTID. MAY NEED TO REFER TO OLD EVENT FC
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beef Hollow Fire | 9,000 | Jul 16, 2001 | Human |
| Mollie Fire | 8,021 | Aug 18, 2001 | Human |
| Antelope 4 Fire | 5,000 | Jul 5, 2001 | Natural |
| 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
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.