Government Creek Fire
The Government Creek Fire burned 1,546 acres in Utah County, Utah, in 2005. It was discovered on August 23, 2005, and contained on August 25, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,546 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 2005
- Contained
- August 25, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,565 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.871, -112.005.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,546 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,565 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 2005, 5:56 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 25, 2005, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Utah County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3987511201320050823
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-508435
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from August 23, 2005 to August 25, 2005. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 6
- Most personnel assigned
- 103 on August 24, 2005
- Most aircraft assigned
- 3
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 47 acres, on August 24, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 2005 | 1,500 | |
| Aug 24, 2005 | 1,547 | +47 |
| Aug 25, 2005 | 1,547 | 0 |
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
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.