Shanty Canyon Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,419 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.813, -112.475.

Reported final size

3,098 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

3,419 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

3,099 acres

Discovered

September 10, 2012, 3:23 p.m. local time

Contained

September 13, 2012, 2:05 p.m. local time

Cause

Natural

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-644986

MTBS fire identifier

UT4081311247520120910

MTBS assessment

Initial (SS)

Fire occurrence record

W-644986

Note on the perimeter

Ground GPS with Trimble GeoXM 2008 Series

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from September 10, 2012 to September 12, 2012. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most structures threatened at once

3

Most personnel assigned

22 on September 10, 2012

Most aircraft assigned

1

Cost reported by the teams

$60,000, in 2012 dollars

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Short Grass (1 foot)

Suppression strategy reported

Point zone protection

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 5,349 acres, on September 11, 2012.

Every fire of 2012 Utah fire history

• Grantsville, UT15 miles south of the fire
• Stansbury park, UT15 miles southeast of the fire
• Erda, UT16 miles southeast of the fire
• Magna, UT21 miles east of the fire
• Tooele, UT22 miles southeast of the fire
• West Valley City, UT26 miles east of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.