Hogups Fire
200630,089 acresUtah
The Hogups Fire burned 30,089 acres, about 47 square miles, across Box Elder County. It began on August 8, 2006.
Watch how it happenedHogups 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 21% | 6,380 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 56% | 16,953 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 22% | 6,753 |
No part of the fire was classed as high severity; 21% burned at moderate 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.
| Box Elder County | UT | 30,094 |
Other large fires in Utah in 2006
- Jarvis Fire49,704 acres
- Dog Valley Fire28,979 acres
- Bull Complex27,487 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.