Bear Creek Fire
The Bear Creek Fire burned 1,464 acres in Garfield County, Utah, in 2008. It was discovered on June 26, 2008, and contained on July 19, 2008. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 1,464 acres
- Discovered
- June 26, 2008
- Contained
- July 19, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,059 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.998, -111.483.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,464 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,059 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,465 acres
- Discovered
- June 26, 2008, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 19, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Utah
- County
- Garfield County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Dixie National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTDIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3798411148520080626
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1459965
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Rohrer Type III-Spec Cause 8
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 20085
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pintail Flat Fire | 4,000 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Porcupine Ranch Fire | 3,432 | Aug 27, 2008 | Natural |
| Friedal Fire | 2,782 | Aug 21, 2008 | Human |
| Corn Creek Fire | 2,269 | Jun 15, 2008 | Human |
| Devil Fire | 1,588 | Aug 10, 2008 | 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.