The cost of containing the Storrie Fire amounted to $22 million. In an effort to recoup the costs of fire suppression as well as damages to federal lands, the U.S. government filed a lawsuit against Union Pacific over the Storrie Fire in 2006. Two years later, after a landmark ruling by a federal judge that allowed the federal government to seek compensation for the full value of the land harmed by the fire, the lawsuit was resolved when Union Pacific paid the government a $102 million settlement.
