Pintail Flat Fire
The Pintail Flat Fire burned 4,000 acres in Weber County, Utah, in 2008. It was discovered on April 18, 2008. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 18, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,170 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.220, -112.182.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,170 acres
- Discovered
- April 18, 2008, 3:11 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Weber County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4122011218220080418
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2008UTFFSL30063-2008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Bear Creek Fire | 1,464 | Jun 26, 2008 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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.