Dog Valley Fire
200628,979 acresUtah
The Dog Valley Fire burned 28,979 acres, about 45 square miles, across Millard County. It began on July 16, 2006.
Watch how it happenedDog Valley Fire · 2006
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
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 | 7.2% | 2,100 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 18% | 5,271 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 21% | 5,980 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 54% | 15,574 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 49 |
7% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,100 acres; 25% 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.
| Millard County | UT | 28,992 |
Other large fires in Utah in 2006
- Jarvis Fire49,704 acres
- Hogups Fire30,089 acres
- Bull Complex27,487 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.