Millville Fire
The Millville Fire burned 2,200 acres in Cache County, Utah, in 2013. It was discovered on August 11, 2013, and contained on August 13, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2013
- Contained
- August 13, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,933 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.645, -111.808.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,933 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,868 acres
- Discovered
- August 11, 2013, 3:39 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 13, 2013, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Utah
- County
- Cache County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- UTBRS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-UTBRS-000615
- MTBS fire identifier
- UT4164511180820130811
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013UTFFSL66107-2013
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 |
| Antelope Fire | 5,451 | Jun 28, 2013 | Natural |
| Black Mountain Fire | 4,324 | Jul 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Playground Fire | 2,539 | Jul 20, 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.