Wildfires of 2013

Thirty Two Fire

2013Box Elder County, UtahWildfire

The Thirty Two Fire burned 1,152 acres in Box Elder County, Utah, in 2013. It was discovered on July 8, 2013, and contained on July 8, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,152 acres
Discovered
July 8, 2013
Contained
July 8, 2013
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,115 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.802, -112.392.

The record

Reported final size
1,152 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,115 acres
Discovered
July 8, 2013, 5:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 8, 2013, 9:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Utah
County
Box Elder County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
UT4182011233920130708
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2013UTFFSL65294-2013

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

FireAcresStartCause
Patch Springs Fire31,010Aug 10, 2013Natural
State Fire9,674Aug 8, 2013Natural
Antelope Fire5,451Jun 28, 2013Natural
Black Mountain Fire4,324Jul 2, 2013Natural
Playground Fire2,539Jul 20, 2013Natural
Millville Fire2,200Aug 11, 2013Natural
Rockport Fire1,920Aug 13, 2013Natural
Wildflower Fire1,748Jun 29, 2013Natural
Unnamed Fire1,577Aug 15, 2013Natural

Every fire of 2013 Utah fire history

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Sources

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.