Colville Fire
The Colville Fire burned 1,200 acres in Alaska, in 2013. It was discovered on June 20, 2013, and contained on July 10, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 2013
- Contained
- July 10, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,041 acres. Point of origin as reported, 69.067, -156.367.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,041 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 978 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 2013, 2:18 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 10, 2013, 3:44 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Alaska Fire Service
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AKGAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-AKGAD-000309
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6906715636720130620
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-658109
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire scar submitted by USGS staff.
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 Alaska in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lime Hills Fire | 201,808 | May 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Moore Creek Fire | 157,747 | May 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Stuart Creek #2 Fire | 87,154 | Jun 19, 2013 | Human |
| Mississippi Fire | 67,338 | May 30, 2013 | Human |
| Beaver Log Lakes Fire | 64,416 | Jun 22, 2013 | Natural |
| Prospect Creek Fire | 64,078 | Jun 20, 2013 | Natural |
| Sandless Lake Fire | 62,318 | Jun 25, 2013 | Natural |
| Sulatna River Fire | 48,188 | Jun 21, 2013 | Natural |
| Chisana River Fire | 46,638 | May 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Moving River Fire | 34,176 | Jun 22, 2013 | Natural |
| Toklat River East Fire | 33,279 | Jun 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Doestock Creek Fire | 29,099 | May 30, 2013 | Natural |
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.