Wildfires of 2004

Table Fire

2004Tooele County, UtahWildfire

The Table Fire burned 1,097 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2004. It was discovered on July 11, 2004, and contained on July 13, 2004. The cause was recorded as fireworks.

Size
1,097 acres
Discovered
July 11, 2004
Contained
July 13, 2004
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,305 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.877, -112.771.

The record

Reported final size
1,097 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,305 acres
Discovered
July 11, 2004, 4:45 p.m. local time
Contained
July 13, 2004, 7:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Fireworks
State
Utah
County
Tooele County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Salt Lake Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT4088611279220040711
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-122583

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
Red Bull Fire1,836Jul 29, 2004Natural
Middle Ridge Fire1,674Aug 11, 2004Natural
Salt Creek Fire1,483Aug 9, 2004Natural
Sheepfence Fire1,206Jul 15, 2004Natural

Every fire of 2004 Utah fire history

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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.