Hawkins Fire
The Hawkins Fire burned 10,000 acres in Utah, in 2004. It was discovered on July 28, 2004, and contained on August 10, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2004
- Contained
- August 10, 2004
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 34,294 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.466, -113.890.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 34,294 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 35,427 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2004, 6:39 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 10, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Dixie National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTDIF
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Hawkins 1
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3748311386920040728
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-399571
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Hawkins 1 & 2 burned together 7/29, WFU then TY1
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 200412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Square Complex | 18,235 | Jun 26, 2004 | Natural |
| Pine Park 2 Fire | 4,799 | Jul 28, 2004 | Natural |
| Six Mile Fire | 4,762 | Jul 29, 2004 | Natural |
| Big Canyon Fire | 3,415 | Aug 7, 2004 | Natural |
| Dammeron Complex (Dammeron) Fire | 3,380 | Jun 16, 2004 | Natural |
| Mail Draw Fire | 2,793 | Aug 31, 2004 | Natural |
| Aragonite Fire | 1,970 | Jun 3, 2004 | Human |
| Red Bull Fire | 1,836 | Jul 29, 2004 | Natural |
| Middle Ridge Fire | 1,674 | Aug 11, 2004 | Natural |
| Salt Creek Fire | 1,483 | Aug 9, 2004 | Natural |
| Sheepfence Fire | 1,206 | Jul 15, 2004 | Natural |
| Sheep Fence Fire | 1,204 |
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.