Westside Complex
The Westside Complex burned 65,480 acres in Washington County, Utah, in 2005. It was discovered on June 23, 2005, and contained on June 30, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 65,480 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2005
- Contained
- June 30, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 58,824 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.148, -113.925.
The record
- Reported final size
- 65,480 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 58,824 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 66,901 acres
- Discovered
- June 23, 2005, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 30, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Washington County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Cedar City Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Part of
- Westside Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-UTCCD-501559
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3716911391620050623
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-501559
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| North Neola Fire | 4,047 | Aug 27, 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.