Kimbell Fire
The Kimbell Fire burned 14,293 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2007. It was discovered on July 17, 2007, and contained on July 30, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 14,293 acres
- Discovered
- July 17, 2007
- Contained
- July 30, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,938 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.673, -112.580.
The record
- Reported final size
- 14,293 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,938 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 16,943 acres
- Discovered
- July 17, 2007, 9:14 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 30, 2007, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Tooele County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4066011258120070717
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-544183
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Base Level
- Note on the perimeter
- From MTBS data. Fire ID: BLM-UTSLD-DR3T-20070717. BLM fire - no FS NIFMID #.
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 | ||
| 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 |
| Paradise Fire | 5,797 | Jul 16, 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.