Eight Mile Fire
The Eight Mile Fire burned 1,376 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2010. It was discovered on October 1, 2010, and contained on October 7, 2010. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 1,376 acres
- Discovered
- October 1, 2010
- Contained
- October 7, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,620 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.582, -112.952.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,376 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,620 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,376 acres
- Discovered
- October 1, 2010, 3:28 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 7, 2010, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- 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-613773
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4057311295820101001
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-613773
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 |
| Fish Springs 2010 Fire | 1,027 | Mar 23, 2010 | |
| Augusi Fire | 958 | Aug 26, 2010 | Natural |
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.