Wildfires of 2005

Camp Springs Fire

2005UtahWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Westside Complex65,480Jun 23, 2005Natural
Ditto Fire22,874Jul 12, 2005Human
Park Valley Fire18,420Jul 22, 2005Human
West Gilson Fire14,604Jul 14, 2005Natural
Sunrise Complex (Sunrise) Fire12,310Jul 22, 2005
Blue Spring Fire12,286Jun 25, 2005Natural
Dammeron Complex (Dammeron) Fire9,593Jul 15, 2005Natural
Sunrise Complex (Oak) Fire9,534Jul 21, 2005Natural
Diamond Complex (Diamond Valley) Fire8,474Jun 28, 2005Natural
Dammeron Complex (Mill Creek) Fire7,892Jul 20, 2005Natural
Sunrise Complex (Cove) Fire5,241Jul 22, 2005Natural
Neck Fire4,931Jul 21, 2005Natural

Every fire of 2005 Utah fire history

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.