Crooked Fire
The Crooked Fire burned 2,050 acres in Utah County, Utah, in 2003. It was discovered on August 11, 2003, and contained on August 18, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,050 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2003
- Contained
- August 18, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,142 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.890, -111.922.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,050 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,142 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2003, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 18, 2003, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Utah County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Part of
- Crooked/Pinyon Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3990011191320030811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-118143
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bulldog Fire | 31,727 | Jul 8, 2003 | Human |
| Apex Fire | 29,933 | Jun 28, 2003 | Human |
| East Hansel Valley Fire | 11,200 | Aug 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Cascade II Fire | 7,828 | Sep 23, 2003 | Human |
| Cherry Creek 2 Fire | 5,720 | Oct 25, 2003 | Human |
| Lonesome Beaver Fire | 4,406 | May 30, 2003 | Natural |
| Wsa Fire | 4,186 | Jul 24, 2003 | Natural |
| Woodenshoe Fire | 2,710 | Jun 28, 2003 | Human |
| Farmington Fire | 2,000 | Jul 10, 2003 | Human |
| Corral Fire | 1,683 | Aug 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Bear Canyon Fire | 1,500 | Jul 29, 2003 | Human |
| Little Mountain Fire | 1,400 | Aug 15, 2003 | 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.