West Sahara Fire
The West Sahara Fire burned 1,056 acres in Juab County, Utah, in 2011. It was discovered on August 15, 2011, and contained on August 21, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,056 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2011
- Contained
- August 21, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,130 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.719, -112.419.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,056 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,130 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,055 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2011, 5:21 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 21, 2011, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Juab County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Richfield Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTRID
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-UTRID-625232
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3971911241920110815
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-625232
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 |
| 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 |
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.