Railroad Fire
199964,561 acresUtah
The Railroad Fire burned 64,561 acres, about 101 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on July 2, 1999.
Watch how it happenedRailroad Fire · 1999
How it happened
See how severely each place burned, revealed outward from where it started.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 9.3% | 5,979 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 36% | 23,366 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 35% | 22,482 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 20% | 12,617 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 117 |
9% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 5,979 acres; 45% burned at moderate or high severity.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Juab County | UT | 64,534 |
| Utah County | UT | 63 |
Other large fires in Utah in 1999
- Wagon Box Fire32,154 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.