Tunnel Hollow Fire
The Tunnel Hollow Fire was reported on July 20, 2014 in Morgan County, Utah and burned 1,600 acres. It was declared out on August 19, 2014. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 1,600 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 20, 2014
- Personnel
- 34
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 41.049, -111.588.
The incident
- Size
- 1,600 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 20, 2014 at 5:38 PM MDT
- Contained
- July 28, 2014 at 8:00 PM MDT
- Controlled
- July 29, 2014 at 4:00 PM MDT
- Declared out
- August 19, 2014 at 10:00 AM MDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Morgan County
- State
- Utah
- Personnel assigned
- 34
- Estimated cost to date
- $1,757,600
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2014-UTNWS-000514
- IRWIN identifier
- 931F8660-3517-4A36-9A33-F9BFAFE2F48D
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 8, from July 25, 2014 to July 28, 2014. 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 personnel assigned
- 153 on July 24, 2014
- Most aircraft assigned
- 6
- Cost reported by the teams
- $1.8 million, in 2014 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Brush (2 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 25, 2014 | 1,600 | |
| Jul 26, 2014 | 1,600 | 0 |
| Jul 27, 2014 | 1,600 | 0 |
| Jul 28, 2014 | 1,600 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Morgan, UT covers the area today.
Nearby
- Morgan, UT5 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Mountain Green, UT12 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Coalville, UT13 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Farmington, UT16 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Fruit Heights, UT16 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Centerville, UT17 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
Utah wildfires today Wildfires of 2014 All current fires
Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated April 6, 2021 at 10:43 AM MDT. Identifier 2014-UTNWS-000514.
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.