Twitchell Canyon Fire
The Twitchell Canyon Fire burned 44,892 acres in Beaver County, Utah, in 2010. It was discovered on July 20, 2010, and contained on October 21, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 44,892 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 2010
- Contained
- October 21, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 42,943 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.425, -112.499.
The record
- Reported final size
- 44,892 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 42,943 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 44,874 acres
- Discovered
- July 20, 2010, 11:02 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 21, 2010, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Beaver County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Fishlake National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTFIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-UTFIF-000089
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3846911247320100720
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1486709
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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.