Pilot Fire
The Pilot Fire burned 2,554 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on August 15, 2006, and contained on September 6, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,554 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2006
- Contained
- September 6, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,024 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.093, -114.068.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,554 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,024 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,762 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2006, 2:37 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 6, 2006, 11:20 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTSLD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-UTSLD-530003
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4104311401720060815
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-530003
- Note on the perimeter
- Collected and processed by Dan Washington.
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
| 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.