Dump Fire
The Dump Fire burned 5,507 acres in Utah County, Utah, in 2012. It was discovered on June 21, 2012, and contained on June 27, 2012. The cause was recorded as firearms and explosives use.
- Size
- 5,507 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 2012
- Contained
- June 27, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,674 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.331, -111.943.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,507 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,674 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,502 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 2012, 11:45 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 27, 2012, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Firearms and explosives use
- State
- Utah
- County
- Utah County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Salt Lake Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTSLD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-UTSLD-637456
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4033111194320120621
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-637456
- Note on the perimeter
- Type II Team: Collected with Garmin
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 |
| 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.