East Hansel Valley Fire
The East Hansel Valley Fire burned 11,200 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2003. It was discovered on August 8, 2003, and contained on August 12, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural. Incident teams reported 2 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 11,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 8, 2003
- Contained
- August 12, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
- Structures destroyed
- 2
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 41.783, -112.566.
The record
- Reported final size
- 11,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 8, 2003, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 12, 2003, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Northwest Area
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2003_UT-NWS-439
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from August 9, 2003 to August 12, 2003. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 2
- Most structures threatened at once
- 7
- Injuries
- 1
- Most personnel assigned
- 60 on August 10, 2003
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Cost reported by the teams
- $50,000, in 2003 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,600 acres, on August 11, 2003.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 2003 | 5,000 | |
| Aug 10, 2003 | 7,500 | +2,500 |
| Aug 11, 2003 | 10,100 | +2,600 |
| Aug 12, 2003 | 11,200 | +1,100 |
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 |
| 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 |
| Crooked Fire | 2,050 | Aug 11, 2003 | Natural |
| 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
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.