Wildfires of 2006

Bull Complex

2006Washington County, UtahWildfire

The Bull Complex burned 41,451 acres in Washington County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on June 28, 2006, and contained on July 11, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
41,451 acres
Discovered
June 28, 2006
Contained
July 11, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 27,487 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.404, -113.940.

The record

Reported final size
41,451 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
27,487 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
23,404 acres
Discovered
June 28, 2006, 11:53 p.m. local time
Contained
July 11, 2006, 10:00 a.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
Bull Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-UTCCD-537143
MTBS fire identifier
UT3739611395720060628
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-537143
Perimeter records
3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
BULL COMPLEX/BULL CS1Y/LOST PK CSW1/SQ TOPCSN0

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 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Jarvis Fire50,737Jun 25, 2006Human
Dog Valley Fire28,661Jul 16, 2006Natural
Hogups Fire28,505Aug 8, 2006Natural
Cove Mountain Fire17,766Jun 30, 2006
Kolob Fire17,632Jun 24, 2006Human
Scorpio Fire14,549Jun 30, 2006Natural
Devils Den Fire14,154Aug 15, 2006Natural
Twin Peaks Fire10,204Jul 18, 2006Natural
Oak City Fire9,740Jul 16, 2006Human
Badger Fire7,953Aug 12, 2006Natural
Ranch Fire5,283Jul 16, 2006Human
Navajo Mountain 1 Fire5,151Jun 10, 2006Natural

Every fire of 2006 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.