Veyo Road Fire
The Veyo Road Fire was reported on September 27, 2020 in Washington County, Utah and burned 2,263 acres. It was declared out on October 21, 2020. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 2,263 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 27, 2020
- Personnel
- 33
Map
Perimeter mapped March 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM MDT, 2,264 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 37.328, -113.694.
The incident
- Size
- 2,263 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 27, 2020 at 5:14 PM MDT
- Contained
- October 1, 2020 at 1:00 PM MDT
- Controlled
- October 9, 2020 at 2:30 PM MDT
- Declared out
- October 21, 2020 at 3:55 PM MDT
- Cause
- Human, Incendiary, Other, Unknown
- Location
- 1 mile south Veyo, UT
- County
- Washington County
- State
- Utah
- Protecting agency
- DFF
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 33
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $150,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-UTSWS-000870
- IRWIN identifier
- 6DF7C2F4-2246-4F81-BF7C-C5431EF0B6C0
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from September 27, 2020 to October 1, 2020. 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 structures threatened at once
- 260
- Most personnel assigned
- 58 on September 28, 2020
- Most aircraft assigned
- 6
- Cost reported by the teams
- $150,000, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Brush (2 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,862 acres, on September 28, 2020.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 2020 | 400 | |
| Sep 28, 2020 | 2,262 | +1,862 |
| Sep 30, 2020 | 2,262 | |
| Oct 1, 2020 | 2,262 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Dammeron Valley, UT covers the area today.
Nearby
- Dammeron Valley, UT2 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Ivins, UT11 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Santa Clara, UT14 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Saint George, UT17 miles south of the fire’s origin
- Washington, UT17 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Enterprise, UT17 miles north of the fire’s origin
Utah wildfires today Wildfires of 2020 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 January 26, 2021 at 9:18 AM MST. Identifier 2020-UTSWS-000870.
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.