Rattlesnake Pass Fire
The Rattlesnake Pass Fire burned 1,421 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2011. It was discovered on August 20, 2011, and contained on August 21, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,421 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2011
- Contained
- August 21, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,456 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.946, -112.591.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,421 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,456 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 2011, 12:39 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 21, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Box Elder County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4194611259120110820
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-625493
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 |
| Maple Canyon Fire | 4,900 | Aug 31, 2011 | Natural |
| Jericho Fire | 2,192 | Sep 1, 2011 | Natural |
| Chaparral Fire | 1,712 | Aug 6, 2011 | Human |
| 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.