Black Bird Mine Wfu Fire
The Black Bird Mine Wfu Fire burned 1,463 acres in Piute County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on June 6, 2006, and contained on July 15, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to June 5, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,463 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2006
- Contained
- July 15, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,379 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.448, -112.135.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,463 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,379 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,463 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2006, 3:07 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 5, 2006
- Contained
- July 15, 2006, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Piute County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Fishlake National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTFIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3845611213020060605
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1446220
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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: 4, from June 6, 2006 to July 16, 2006. 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
- 40 on June 7, 2006
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Dormant Brush, Hardwood Slash
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 500 acres, on June 7, 2006.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2006 | 700 | |
| Jun 7, 2006 | 1,200 | +500 |
| Jun 8, 2006 | 1,463 | +263 |
| Jul 16, 2006 | 1,463 |
Other large fires in Utah in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jarvis Fire | 50,737 | Jun 25, 2006 | Human |
| Bull Complex | 41,451 | Jun 28, 2006 | Natural |
| Dog Valley Fire | 28,661 | Jul 16, 2006 | Natural |
| Hogups Fire | 28,505 | Aug 8, 2006 | Natural |
| Cove Mountain Fire | 17,766 | Jun 30, 2006 | |
| Kolob Fire | 17,632 | Jun 24, 2006 | Human |
| Scorpio Fire | 14,549 | Jun 30, 2006 | Natural |
| Devils Den Fire | 14,154 | Aug 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Twin Peaks Fire | 10,204 | Jul 18, 2006 | Natural |
| Oak City Fire | 9,740 | Jul 16, 2006 | Human |
| Badger Fire | 7,953 | Aug 12, 2006 | Natural |
| Ranch Fire | 5,283 | Jul 16, 2006 | Human |
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. 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.