Butte Fire
The Butte Fire burned 2,074 acres in Tooele County, Utah, in 2012. It was discovered on September 17, 2012, and contained on September 18, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,074 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2012
- Contained
- September 18, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,202 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.934, -112.877.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,074 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,202 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,204 acres
- Discovered
- September 17, 2012, 8:55 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 18, 2012, 5:10 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Utah
- County
- Tooele County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTSLD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-UTSLD-644989
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3993311287720120917
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-644989
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Derived
- Note on the perimeter
- downloaded from MTBS database, no record in SLFO data
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.