Devil Fire
The Devil Fire burned 1,588 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2008. It was discovered on August 10, 2008, and contained on August 15, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,588 acres
- Discovered
- August 10, 2008
- Contained
- August 15, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,750 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.534, -113.689.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,588 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,750 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,589 acres
- Discovered
- August 10, 2008, 3:21 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 15, 2008, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTSLD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2008-UTSLD-577228
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4154311369320080810
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-577228
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 |
| 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.