Wildfires of 2013

Bailey Fire

2013Idaho County, IdahoWildfire

The Bailey Fire burned 1,636 acres in Idaho County, Idaho, in 2013. It was discovered on July 14, 2013, and contained on July 20, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,636 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2013
Contained
July 20, 2013
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,103 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.266, -114.892.

The record

Reported final size
1,636 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,103 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,617 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2013, 1:40 p.m. local time
Contained
July 20, 2013, 4:25 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Idaho County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDNCF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2013-IDNCF-000014
MTBS fire identifier
ID4626611489220130714
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1517214

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Idaho in 201312

FireAcresStartCause
Pony Complex135,231Aug 8, 2013Natural
Elk Complex129,730Aug 8, 2013Natural
Beaver Creek Fire111,497Aug 7, 2013Natural
Little Queens Fire23,406Aug 17, 2013Human
Mccan Fire23,389Aug 7, 2013Natural
Lodgepole Fire22,825Jul 20, 2013Natural
Raft Fire20,395Aug 29, 2013Natural
Kelley Fire17,349Aug 24, 2013Natural
Jim Brown Fire14,404Jul 1, 2013Natural
Thunder City Fire13,263Jul 19, 2013Natural
Southeast Red Bridge Fire9,499Jul 31, 2013Natural
Papoose Fire9,493Jul 8, 2013Natural

Every fire of 2013 Idaho fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.