Wildfires of 2004

Pine Park 2 Fire

2004UtahWildfire

The Pine Park 2 Fire burned 4,799 acres in Utah, in 2004. It was discovered on July 28, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,799 acres
Discovered
July 28, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,767 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.546, -114.017.

The record

Reported final size
4,799 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,767 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,799 acres
Discovered
July 28, 2004, 8:21 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
UTCCD
Part of
Westside Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2004-UTCCD-599086
MTBS fire identifier
UT3755311398320040728
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-399618
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
WFU for 3 days, then TY1 took over with Hawkins

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

FireAcresStartCause
Square Complex18,235Jun 26, 2004Natural
Hawkins Fire10,000Jul 28, 2004Natural
Six Mile Fire4,762Jul 29, 2004Natural
Big Canyon Fire3,415Aug 7, 2004Natural
Dammeron Complex (Dammeron) Fire3,380Jun 16, 2004Natural
Mail Draw Fire2,793Aug 31, 2004Natural
Aragonite Fire1,970Jun 3, 2004Human
Red Bull Fire1,836Jul 29, 2004Natural
Middle Ridge Fire1,674Aug 11, 2004Natural
Salt Creek Fire1,483Aug 9, 2004Natural
Sheepfence Fire1,206Jul 15, 2004Natural
Sheep Fence Fire1,204

Every fire of 2004 Utah fire history

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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.