Castle Fire FY13 Prescribed Fire
The Castle Fire FY13 Prescribed Fire burned 1,537 acres in Coconino County, Arizona, in 2013. It was discovered on July 24, 2013, and contained on August 24, 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to September 12, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,537 acres
- Discovered
- July 24, 2013
- Contained
- August 24, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,299 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.597, -112.322.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,537 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,299 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,537 acres
- Discovered
- July 24, 2013, 7:50 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 12, 2013
- Contained
- August 24, 2013, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Coconino County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Kaibab National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AZKNF
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-AZKNF-000069
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3659711232020130912
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1516531
- Perimeter map method
- Other Agency Digital
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 Arizona in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creek Fire | 18,076 | Jun 16, 2013 | Natural |
| Fourmile Fire | 14,255 | Jun 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Soldier Basin Fire | 10,775 | May 17, 2013 | Human |
| Yarnell Hill Fire | 8,877 | Jun 28, 2013 | Natural |
| Doce Fire | 6,767 | Jun 18, 2013 | Human |
| Beaver Fire | 5,803 | Jul 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Dean Peak Fire | 5,413 | Jun 29, 2013 | Natural |
| Island Lake Fire | 3,200 | May 19, 2013 | Human |
| Eastwood Mesa Fire | 2,600 | Aug 15, 2013 | Natural |
| Prospect Fire | 1,625 | Aug 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Skinner Fire | 1,463 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| White Fire | 1,433 | Jul 5, 2013 | Natural |
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.