Wildfires of 2011

Barn Fire

2011UtahWildfire

The Barn Fire burned 1,375 acres in Utah, in 2011. It was discovered on June 10, 2011, and contained on June 17, 2011. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,375 acres
Discovered
June 10, 2011
Contained
June 17, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,418 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.181, -113.756.

The record

Reported final size
1,375 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,418 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,374 acres
Discovered
June 10, 2011, 1:46 p.m. local time
Contained
June 17, 2011, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Utah
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Southern Paiute Agency
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
UTSPA
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2011-UTSPA-110161
MTBS fire identifier
UT3718111375620110610
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-622472

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 201112

FireAcresStartCause
Lakeside Fire16,267Jul 16, 2011Human
Wrangler Fire8,455Aug 5, 2011Natural
Locomotive Fire5,916Aug 20, 2011Natural
Maple Canyon Fire4,900Aug 31, 2011Natural
Jericho Fire2,192Sep 1, 2011Natural
Chaparral Fire1,712Aug 6, 2011Human
Rattlesnake Pass Fire1,421Aug 20, 2011Natural
Goose_Nest Fire1,404Sep 30, 2011Natural
Cottonwood Fire1,113Jun 16, 2011Human
Sunset Campground Fire1,107Aug 17, 2011
Goose Nest Fire1,079Jul 18, 2011Natural
West Sahara Fire1,056Aug 15, 2011Natural

Every fire of 2011 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. 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.