Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,390 acres in Garfield County, Utah, in 2007. It was discovered on August 14, 2007, and contained on October 16, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to August 28, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,390 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2007
- Contained
- October 16, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,691 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.707, -111.830.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,390 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,691 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,270 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2007, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 28, 2007
- Contained
- October 16, 2007, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Garfield County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Dixie National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTDIF
- Part of
- Dixie Complex
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3772011182620070828
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1457221
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- WFU-D4
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.