Neola North Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 46,875 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.497, -110.342.

Reported final size

43,830 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

46,875 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

43,698 acres

Discovered

June 29, 2007, 9:02 a.m. local time

Contained

September 18, 2007, 10:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Utah

Land ownership at origin

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Reporting unit

Uintah and Ouray Agency

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

UTUOA

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2007-UTVLD-1457993

MTBS fire identifier

UT4055711000520070629

MTBS assessment

Extended

Fire occurrence record

W-552361

Perimeter map method

GPS - Uncorrected Data

Perimeter records

2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

Note on the perimeter

Cause under investigation - M1=Lead Plane and Air Attack. Fire started on UT-UOA land and burned onto UT-ASF land. Fire managed with ICT3 for first operational period then transitioned to IMT1.

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 19, from June 30, 2007 to July 27, 2007. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Structures destroyed

36 (12 residences, 24 other)

Most structures threatened at once

183

Deaths

3

Injuries

9

Most personnel assigned

902 on July 5, 2007

Most aircraft assigned

12

People evacuated, at the most

Evacuations were reported; no count was filed

Cost reported by the teams

$8.1 million, in 2007 dollars

Primary fuel model reported

Closed Timber Litter

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 8,499 acres, on July 1, 2007.

Every fire of 2007 Utah fire history

• Roosevelt, UT23 miles southeast of the fire
• Duchesne, UT23 miles south of the fire
• Ballard, UT25 miles southeast of the fire
• Maeser, UT40 miles east of the fire
• Vernal, UT43 miles east of the fire
• Naples, UT45 miles east of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.