Maple Canyon Fire
The Maple Canyon Fire burned 4,900 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2011. It was discovered on August 31, 2011, and contained on September 2, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,900 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 2011
- Contained
- September 2, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,008 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.493, -112.555.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,900 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,008 acres
- Discovered
- August 31, 2011, 7:05 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 2, 2011, 8:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4149411255520110831
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-626413
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside Fire | 16,267 | Jul 16, 2011 | Human |
| Wrangler Fire | 8,455 | Aug 5, 2011 | Natural |
| Locomotive Fire | 5,916 | Aug 20, 2011 | Natural |
| Jericho Fire | 2,192 | Sep 1, 2011 | Natural |
| Chaparral Fire | 1,712 | Aug 6, 2011 | Human |
| Rattlesnake Pass Fire | 1,421 | Aug 20, 2011 | Natural |
| Goose_Nest Fire | 1,404 | Sep 30, 2011 | Natural |
| Barn Fire | 1,375 | Jun 10, 2011 | Human |
| Cottonwood Fire | 1,113 | Jun 16, 2011 | Human |
| Sunset Campground Fire | 1,107 | Aug 17, 2011 | |
| Goose Nest Fire | 1,079 | Jul 18, 2011 | Natural |
| West Sahara Fire | 1,056 | Aug 15, 2011 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
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.