Box Creek Fire
The Box Creek Fire burned 2,170 acres in Piute County, Utah, in 2012. It was discovered on June 5, 2012, and contained on July 9, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,170 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2012
- Contained
- July 9, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,551 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.459, -112.061.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,170 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,551 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,049 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2012, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 9, 2012, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Piute County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Richfield Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTFIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-UTRID-636662
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3845911206020120605
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-636662
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- (RR 20230227) stat cause 9
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Springs Fire | 107,847 | Jun 27, 2012 | Human |
| Seeley Fire | 48,986 | Jun 26, 2012 | Natural |
| Wood Hollow Fire | 47,387 | Jun 23, 2012 | Human |
| Dallas Canyon Fire | 43,660 | Jul 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Faust Fire | 22,045 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Wolf Den Fire | 20,049 | Jun 29, 2012 | Natural |
| Baboon Fire | 19,779 | Jul 12, 2012 | Natural |
| Grease Fire | 15,898 | Jun 22, 2012 | Human |
| Shingle Fire | 8,061 | Jul 1, 2012 | Human |
| Church Camp Fire | 7,221 | Jun 24, 2012 | Natural |
| Pinyon Fire | 5,766 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Dump Fire | 5,507 | Jun 21, 2012 | Human |
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.