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On Friday, July 5, 2024, at approximately 1:00 p.m., the Silver King Fire, burning on the Fishlake National Forest approximately three miles west of the Town of Marysvale, UT was reported. The fire cause is natural, due to a lightning strike. It is burning in heavy timber, Pinyon-Juniper, sagebrush and grass. The fire is currently being managed by Great Basin Complex Incident Management Team 2 utilizing full suppression, confine/contain and value protection strategies.
Incident Objectives include:
- The lives and safety of the public, firefighters, and aviators will always be the highest priority throughout all phases of the incident. Only choose strategies and tactics that will result in the highest probability of success in achieving incident objectives and course of action while minimizing risk to firefighters.
- Protect water quality in watersheds, water systems, riparian zones, springs, and seeps by limiting fire intensities and utilizing suppression activities to minimize sedimentation.
- Minimize loss to private property, infrastructure, communication sites, transportation corridors and transmission lines by restricting fire growth north, east and south of current perimeters.
- Maintain and enhance relationships with local communities, cooperators, and visiting public by providing timely and accurate information utilizing all applicable methods.
- Use natural barriers, constructed features, and favorable fuel types that will provide the greatest possibility for suppression success.
| Current as of | Fri, 07/26/2024 - 11:13 |
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| Incident Time Zone | America/Denver |
| Incident Type | Wildfire |
| Cause | Lightning |
| Date of Origin | |
| Location | 3 Miles West of Marysvale, Utah |
| Incident Commander | Sierra Front Nevada Team 5 Scott Stephenson, Incident Commander Benjamin Krupski, Incident Commander (trainee) August Isernhagen, Deputy Incident Commander |
| Coordinates |
38° 29' 01'' Latitude
-112° 20' 26
'' Longitude
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| Total Personnel: | 258 |
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| Size | 18,222 Acres |
| Percent of Perimeter Contained | 83% |
| Fuels Involved | The Silver King Fire fuels consist of heavy timber, pinyon-juniper, grass & sagebrush. |
| Significant Events | With the recent rain, there is minimal fire behavior. Larger fuels are burning out, but lighter fuels will dry out and become available. Fire personnel are assisting the local unit with initial attack in the area. The fire will mainly creep and smolder, but in the areas that received lighter rain and are exposed to the sun longer, low to moderate fire behavior may occur at peak conditions. There is very minimal fire activity at night, confined to the heavier fuels burning out. With rain, comes the additional challenge of flash floods and mudslides. Crews are having to mitigate the driving hazards and be alert for debris flows around the fire area. |
| Planned Actions |
The fire perimeter on the northwest and west edge is in patrol and monitor status. Fire crews will continue to mop-up and secure the fire edge along the northern perimeter to Deer Creek. Resources continue to complete fire suppression repair on the eastern edge. Limited, strategic firing operations may be used along the southern edge of the fire to employ natural barriers. |
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| Weather Concerns | Drier air will begin spreading into the area today, allowing RH to fall into the 20% range across the fire area by early afternoon. Enough lingering moisture will support scattered showers and thunderstorms once again, with lightning, gusty outflow winds to 40 mph, and moderate to briefly heavy rainfall possible. Rainfall amounts of 0.05-0.15" are most likely with any storms which move over the fire, and there is a 10% chance of rainfall in excess of 0.25". Away from these storms, winds will remain terrain driven across lower and mid slopes, while west-northwest winds spread across upper exposed ridgelines. A few showers and thunderstorms will linger into the evening hours before diminishing. A transition to very dry and breezy pattern will follow for Saturday, when Red Flag Warning will be in effect for the fire area. |
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