East Peak Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,072 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.432, -104.927.

Reported final size

13,572 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

10,072 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

13,485 acres

Discovered

June 19, 2013, 6:35 p.m. local time

Contained

July 22, 2013, 3:45 p.m. local time

Cause

Natural

State

Colorado

County

Huerfano County

Land ownership at origin

Bureau of Land Management

Reporting unit

Royal Gorge Field Office

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

CORGD

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2013-CORGD-000444

MTBS fire identifier

CO3745910490420130619

MTBS assessment

Extended

Fire occurrence record

W-657482

Perimeter records

2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

Note on the perimeter

From Glenda

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 17, from June 20, 2013 to July 5, 2013. 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.

Structures destroyed

14

Most structures threatened at once

1,600

Injuries

1

Most personnel assigned

753 on June 25, 2013

Most aircraft assigned

8

People evacuated, at the most

Evacuations were reported; no count was filed

Cost reported by the teams

$6.9 million, in 2013 dollars

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Timber (Litter and Understory)

Suppression strategy reported

Full suppression

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,265 acres, on June 22, 2013.

Text from Wikipedia, “East Peak Fire”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted as written; the full article has the rest.

Every fire of 2013 Colorado fire history

• La Veta, CO7 miles northwest of the fire
• Walsenburg, CO15 miles northeast of the fire
• Trinidad, CO30 miles southeast of the fire
• Colorado City, CO36 miles north of the fire
• Raton, NM45 miles southeast of the fire
• Alamosa East, CO50 miles west of the fire

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.