Wildfires of 2007

Craner Fire

2007Tooele County, UtahWildfire

The Craner Fire burned 1,132 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2007. It was discovered on June 23, 2007, and contained on June 26, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,132 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2007
Contained
June 26, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,853 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.870, -112.781.

The record

Reported final size
1,132 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,853 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,462 acres
Discovered
June 23, 2007, 1:52 p.m. local time
Contained
June 26, 2007, 2:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Utah
County
Tooele County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Salt Lake Field Office
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
UTSLD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2007-UTSLD-541837
MTBS fire identifier
UT4084911279520070623
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-541837

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

FireAcresStartCause
Milford Flat Fire357,185Jul 6, 2007Natural
Neola North Fire43,830Jun 29, 2007Human
Quincy Fire25,582Jun 5, 2007Human
Salt Creek Fire25,456Jul 19, 2007Human
Monarch Fire24,594Jul 18, 2007Natural
Greenville Fire14,656Jul 10, 2007Human
Kimball Fire14,294
Kimbell Fire14,293Jul 17, 2007Natural
Duffy Fire9,529Aug 15, 2007Natural
Dakota Hill Fire9,190Jul 16, 2007Natural
Dakota Hills Fire7,061
Locomotive Springs Fire6,516Jul 25, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 Utah fire history

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.