Wildfires of 2012

Shingle Fire

2012Kane County, UtahWildfire

The Shingle Fire burned 8,061 acres in Kane County, Utah, in 2012. It was discovered on July 1, 2012, and contained on July 24, 2012. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
8,061 acres
Discovered
July 1, 2012
Contained
July 24, 2012
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,117 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.435, -112.644.

The record

Reported final size
8,061 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,117 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
8,064 acres
Discovered
July 1, 2012, 3:38 p.m. local time
Contained
July 24, 2012, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Utah
County
Kane County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Dixie National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
UTDIF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT3743511264420120702
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1504287
Perimeter map method
GPS - Uncorrected Data
Note on the perimeter
Fire was spotted by Engine 4722. Fire was actively moving when IA resources arrived on scene. Crews were unable to contain fire. Type 2 IMT (Mark Rapp) was ordered and was aided in the containment by weather change(Monsoonal Moisture).

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
Church Camp Fire7,221Jun 24, 2012Natural
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.