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Overall, Utah has had 585 fires burning over 40,000 acres so far this wildfire season, and 421 of them have been human-caused, the website says. Show comments. Advertisement. Advertisement.
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Now the ongoing fire is affecting a community riddled with environmental issues and poverty. “If I could leave tomorrow, I would,” Hunt said. East Carbon is a coal town, one of only a few ...
The 2020 Utah wildfire season was a series of prominent wildfires throughout the state of Utah, lasting from June 1 through October 30, as defined by state law. [5] Part of the 2020 Western United States wildfire season , Utah saw record-breaking numbers of human-caused fires.
List of wildfires [ edit ] The following is a list of fires that burned more than 1,000 acres (400 ha), or produced significant structural damage or casualties.
In late July, a brush fire in Chelan County, the Colockum Fire, burned at least 3,337 acres (1,350 ha) and caused homes to be evacuated. [28] A fire on the Colville Reservation near Nespelem called the Greenhouse Fire burned at least 5,146 acres (2,083 ha) and caused the evacuation of the Colville Tribal Corrections Facility and other structures.
The Milford Flat Fire is the largest wildfire in Utah history. It was started by lightning on Friday, July 6, 2007 at 3:45 pm near Milford, Utah. The fire burned 363,052 acres (567 square miles) and caused large stretches of I-15 to be temporarily closed. Many veteran firefighters had stated this was the fastest-moving fire they had ever seen.
The Neola North Fire was a major wildfire which occurred in the Ashley National Forest in northeastern Utah. It was blamed for three fatalities, [ 1 ] the destruction of at least 12 homes, [ 2 ] the burning of 43,511 acres (176 km 2 ) of land, [ 3 ] and led to the evacuation of about 500 local residents.