Big Creek Fire
The Big Creek Fire burned 1,150 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2007. It was discovered on September 3, 2007, and contained on September 3, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,150 acres
- Discovered
- September 3, 2007
- Contained
- September 3, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,539 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.476, -112.645.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,150 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,539 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 936 acres
- Discovered
- September 3, 2007, 5:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 3, 2007, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Tooele County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTUWF
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-UTUWF-000894
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4049111263320070903
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1454888
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Milford Flat Fire | 357,185 | Jul 6, 2007 | Natural |
| Neola North Fire | 43,830 | Jun 29, 2007 | Human |
| Quincy Fire | 25,582 | Jun 5, 2007 | Human |
| Salt Creek Fire | 25,456 | Jul 19, 2007 | Human |
| Monarch Fire | 24,594 | Jul 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Greenville Fire | 14,656 | Jul 10, 2007 | Human |
| Kimball Fire | 14,294 | ||
| Kimbell Fire | 14,293 | Jul 17, 2007 | Natural |
| Duffy Fire | 9,529 | Aug 15, 2007 | Natural |
| Dakota Hill Fire | 9,190 | Jul 16, 2007 | Natural |
| Dakota Hills Fire | 7,061 | ||
| Locomotive Springs Fire | 6,516 | Jul 25, 2007 | 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.