Wildfires of 2004

Red Bull Fire

2004UtahWildfire

The Red Bull Fire burned 1,836 acres in Utah, in 2004. It was discovered on July 29, 2004, and contained on August 6, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,836 acres
Discovered
July 29, 2004
Contained
August 6, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,661 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.010, -111.378.

The record

Reported final size
1,836 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,661 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,836 acres
Discovered
July 29, 2004, 5:08 p.m. local time
Contained
August 6, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Utah
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
UTUWF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT4000911137720040729
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-397916
Perimeter map method
GPS - Uncorrected Data

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
Pine Park 2 Fire4,799Jul 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
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.