Corn Creek Fire
The Corn Creek Fire burned 2,269 acres in Garfield County, Utah, in 2008. It was discovered on June 15, 2008, and contained on June 23, 2008. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,269 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2008
- Contained
- June 23, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,220 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.783, -111.841.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,269 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,220 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,271 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2008, 11:52 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 23, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- 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
- UT3778511181920080615
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1459684
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Harvey Type II/Rohrer Type III-Stat Cause-9 Spec Cause-30
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 |
| Devil Fire | 1,588 | Aug 10, 2008 | Natural |
| Bear Creek Fire | 1,464 | Jun 26, 2008 | Human |
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.