Wildfires of 2012

Church Camp Fire

2012Duchesne County, UtahWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Clay Springs Fire107,847Jun 27, 2012Human
Seeley Fire48,986Jun 26, 2012Natural
Wood Hollow Fire47,387Jun 23, 2012Human
Dallas Canyon Fire43,660Jul 27, 2012Natural
Faust Fire22,045Aug 5, 2012Natural
Wolf Den Fire20,049Jun 29, 2012Natural
Baboon Fire19,779Jul 12, 2012Natural
Grease Fire15,898Jun 22, 2012Human
Shingle Fire8,061Jul 1, 2012Human
Pinyon Fire5,766Aug 5, 2012Natural
Dump Fire5,507Jun 21, 2012Human
Shivwits Fire5,032Aug 12, 2012Natural

Every fire of 2012 Utah fire history

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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.