Ranch Fire
The Ranch Fire burned 5,283 acres in Washington County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on July 16, 2006, and contained on July 22, 2006. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 5,283 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 2006
- Contained
- July 22, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,926 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.362, -113.264.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,283 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,926 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,267 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 2006, 3:11 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 22, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Utah
- County
- Washington County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Cedar City Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTCCD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-UTCCD-537151
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3736111325720060716
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-537151
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 |
| Navajo Mountain 1 Fire | 5,151 | Jun 10, 2006 | 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.