Wildfires of 2006

Pot Hole Fire

2006Daggett County, UtahWildfire

The Pot Hole Fire burned 1,024 acres in Daggett County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on June 23, 2006, and contained on July 5, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,024 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2006
Contained
July 5, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,390 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.676, -109.115.

The record

Reported final size
1,024 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,390 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,396 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2006, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 5, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Utah
County
Daggett County
Reporting unit
Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
UTVLD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2006-UTVLD-523097
MTBS fire identifier
UT4067110910720060623
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2006UTFFSL22544-2006

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
Bull Complex41,451Jun 28, 2006Natural
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

Every fire of 2006 Utah fire history

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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.