Church Camp Fire
The Church Camp Fire burned 7,221 acres in Duchesne County, Utah, in 2012. It was discovered on June 24, 2012, and contained on July 16, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 7,221 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2012
- Contained
- July 16, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,011 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.865, -110.694.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,221 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,011 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,211 acres
- Discovered
- June 24, 2012, 6:02 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 16, 2012, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Duchesne County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Vernal Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTNES
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-UTVLD-643512
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3986511069320120624
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-643512
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- 2985 acres USFS, 4232 Utah State - Fire Investigation is still under investigation, therefore other and misc. are noted in the Cause classifications. Information on Structures gathered from 7/18/2012 ICS 209 and local Fire Warden.
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 |
| Pinyon Fire | 5,766 | Aug 5, 2012 | Natural |
| Dump Fire | 5,507 | Jun 21, 2012 | Human |
| Shivwits Fire | 5,032 | Aug 12, 2012 | 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.