Antelope Fire
The Antelope Fire burned 5,451 acres in Millard County, Utah, in 2013. It was discovered on June 28, 2013, and contained on July 9, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,451 acres
- Discovered
- June 28, 2013
- Contained
- July 9, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,517 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.587, -112.846.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,451 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,517 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,449 acres
- Discovered
- June 28, 2013, 6:57 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 9, 2013, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Millard County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Richfield Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- UTRID
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-UTRID-655151
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT3858711284620130628
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-655151
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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 20139
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Patch Springs Fire | 31,010 | Aug 10, 2013 | Natural |
| State Fire | 9,674 | Aug 8, 2013 | Natural |
| Black Mountain Fire | 4,324 | Jul 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Playground Fire | 2,539 | Jul 20, 2013 | Natural |
| Millville Fire | 2,200 | Aug 11, 2013 | Natural |
| Rockport Fire | 1,920 | Aug 13, 2013 | Natural |
| Wildflower Fire | 1,748 | Jun 29, 2013 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,577 | Aug 15, 2013 | Natural |
| Thirty Two Fire | 1,152 | Jul 8, 2013 | Human |
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.