Camp Springs Fire
The Camp Springs Fire burned 1,318 acres in Utah, in 2005. It was discovered on July 29, 2005, and contained on August 1, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,318 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2005
- Contained
- August 1, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,603 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.202, -113.800.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,318 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,603 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,318 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2005, 6:04 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 1, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Southern Paiute Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-UTCCD-505627
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3717311381820050729
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-506674
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Westside Complex | 65,480 | Jun 23, 2005 | Natural |
| Ditto Fire | 22,874 | Jul 12, 2005 | Human |
| Park Valley Fire | 18,420 | Jul 22, 2005 | Human |
| West Gilson Fire | 14,604 | Jul 14, 2005 | Natural |
| Sunrise Complex (Sunrise) Fire | 12,310 | Jul 22, 2005 | |
| Blue Spring Fire | 12,286 | Jun 25, 2005 | Natural |
| Dammeron Complex (Dammeron) Fire | 9,593 | Jul 15, 2005 | Natural |
| Sunrise Complex (Oak) Fire | 9,534 | Jul 21, 2005 | Natural |
| Diamond Complex (Diamond Valley) Fire | 8,474 | Jun 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Dammeron Complex (Mill Creek) Fire | 7,892 | Jul 20, 2005 | Natural |
| Sunrise Complex (Cove) Fire | 5,241 | Jul 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Neck Fire | 4,931 | Jul 21, 2005 | Natural |
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.