Wildfires of 2010

Delle Fire

2010Tooele County, UtahWildfire

The Delle Fire burned 1,396 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2010. It was discovered on June 15, 2010, and contained on June 17, 2010. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,396 acres
Discovered
June 15, 2010
Contained
June 17, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,396 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.681, -112.735.

The record

Reported final size
1,396 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,396 acres
Discovered
June 15, 2010, 9:15 p.m. local time
Contained
June 17, 2010, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Utah
County
Tooele 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
2010-UTSLD-602555
Fire occurrence record
W-602555

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

FireAcresStartCause
Twitchell Canyon Fire44,892Jul 20, 2010Natural
Machine Gun Fire4,326Sep 19, 2010Human
Coffee Pot Fire1,968Jul 18, 2010Natural
Eight Mile Fire1,376Oct 1, 2010Human
Fish Springs 2010 Fire1,027Mar 23, 2010
Augusi Fire958Aug 26, 2010Natural

Every fire of 2010 Utah fire history

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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. 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.