Sky Ranch Fire
The Sky Ranch Fire burned 1,727 acres in Washington County, Utah, in 2006. It was discovered on May 18, 2006, and contained on May 23, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,727 acres
- Discovered
- May 18, 2006
- Contained
- May 23, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,817 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.059, -113.306.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,727 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,817 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,838 acres
- Discovered
- May 18, 2006, 4:10 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 23, 2006, 3:00 p.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
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-UTCCD-537118
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3706811330520060518
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-537118
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.