Wildfires of 2013

Hathaway Fire

2013Riverside County, CaliforniaWildfire

The Hathaway Fire burned 3,870 acres in Riverside County, California, in 2013. It was discovered on June 6, 2013, and contained on June 20, 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to June 9, 2013. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.

Size
3,870 acres
Discovered
June 6, 2013
Contained
June 20, 2013
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,857 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.025, -116.842.

The record

Reported final size
3,870 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,857 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,780 acres
Discovered
June 6, 2013, 11:57 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
June 9, 2013
Contained
June 20, 2013, 6:36 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Recreation and ceremony
State
California
County
Riverside County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
San Bernardino National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CABDF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3400311682420130609
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1516582

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 California in 201312

FireAcresStartCause
Rim Fire255,858Aug 17, 2013Human
Powerhouse Fire30,274May 30, 2013Human
Mountain Fire27,531Jul 15, 2013Human
American Fire27,440Aug 10, 2013Human
Springs Fire24,238May 2, 2013Human
Aspen Fire22,992Jul 22, 2013Natural
Butler Fire22,445Jul 31, 2013Human
Silver Fire20,292Aug 7, 2013Human
Corral Complex12,531Aug 10, 2013Natural
Salmon River Complex12,365Jul 31, 2013Human
Deer Fire11,429Aug 23, 2013Human
Clover Fire8,056Sep 9, 2013Human

Every fire of 2013 California fire history

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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.