Wildfires of 2013

Dietrich Butte Fire

2013Lincoln County, IdahoWildfire

The Dietrich Butte Fire burned 1,061 acres in Lincoln County, Idaho, in 2013. It was discovered on August 22, 2013, and contained on August 24, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,061 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2013
Contained
August 24, 2013
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,152 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.925, -114.212.

The record

Reported final size
1,061 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,152 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,060 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2013, 6:33 p.m. local time
Contained
August 24, 2013, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Lincoln County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Twin Falls District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
IDTFD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2013-IDSHD-000411
MTBS fire identifier
ID4292511421220130822
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-660296
Perimeter map method
GPS-Walked and Driven

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.

From the incident teams’ reports

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most structures threatened at once
1
Most personnel assigned
15 on August 23, 2013
Cost reported by the teams
$50,000, in 2013 dollars
Cause on the reports
Lightning or other natural
Primary fuel model reported
Short Grass (1 foot)
Suppression strategy reported
Full suppression

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.