Augusi Fire
The Augusi Fire burned 958 acres in Uintah County, Utah, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on September 23, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 958 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Contained
- September 23, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,292 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.661, -109.096.
The record
- Reported final size
- 958 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,292 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 955 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 2:48 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 23, 2010, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Uintah County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Vernal Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTVLD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-UTVLD-615281
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3967210907720100826
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-615281
- Note on the perimeter
- Lightning caused
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 20106
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Twitchell Canyon Fire | 44,892 | Jul 20, 2010 | Natural |
| Machine Gun Fire | 4,326 | Sep 19, 2010 | Human |
| Coffee Pot Fire | 1,968 | Jul 18, 2010 | Natural |
| Delle Fire | 1,396 | Jun 15, 2010 | Human |
| Eight Mile Fire | 1,376 | Oct 1, 2010 | Human |
| Fish Springs 2010 Fire | 1,027 | Mar 23, 2010 |
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.