Amos Canyon Wfm Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,331 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.961, -112.081.

Reported final size

1,450 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,331 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

1,450 acres

Discovered

July 5, 2009, 3:44 p.m. local time

Cause

Natural

State

Utah

County

Sevier County

Land ownership at origin

Forest Service

Reporting unit

Fishlake National Forest

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

UTFIF

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2009-UTRID-595600

MTBS fire identifier

UT3895711208020090705

MTBS assessment

Extended

Fire occurrence record

ICS209_2009_UT-FIF-000098

Perimeter map method

GPS - Uncorrected Data

Perimeter records

2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 11, from July 5, 2009 to October 22, 2009. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most personnel assigned

21 on July 7, 2009

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Timber (Litter and Understory)

Suppression strategy reported

Confine

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 83 acres, on July 9, 2009.

Every fire of 2009 Utah fire history

• Aurora, UT8 miles east of the fire
• Salina, UT12 miles east of the fire
• Richfield, UT13 miles south of the fire
• Fillmore, UT13 miles west of the fire
• Centerfield, UT18 miles northeast of the fire
• Gunnison, UT19 miles northeast of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.