Wildfires of 2006

Reese Fire

2006Box Elder County, UtahWildfire

The Reese Fire burned 600 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on July 27, 2006, and contained on August 5, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
600 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006
Contained
August 5, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,212 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.703, -112.582.

The record

Reported final size
600 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,212 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006, 12:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 5, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Utah
County
Box Elder County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT4170511258220060727
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2006UTFFSL22409-2006

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

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.