Wildfires of 2013

Labrador Fire

2013Josephine County, OregonWildfire

The Labrador Fire burned 2,023 acres in Josephine County, Oregon, in 2013. It was discovered on July 26, 2013, and contained on October 30, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,023 acres
Discovered
July 26, 2013
Contained
October 30, 2013
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,107 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.365, -123.816.

The record

Reported final size
2,023 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,107 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,023 acres
Discovered
July 26, 2013, 11:00 a.m. local time
Contained
October 30, 2013, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
County
Josephine County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORRSF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2013-ORRSF-000426
MTBS fire identifier
OR4236712381420130726
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1519256
Perimeter map method
Other
Note on the perimeter
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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 Oregon in 201312

FireAcresStartCause
Sunnyside Turnoff Fire53,000Jul 20, 2013Human
Owyhee Fire46,445Jul 1, 2013Natural
Big Windy Complex26,725Jul 26, 2013Natural
Cedar Mountain Fire23,948Aug 8, 2013Natural
North Rabbit Fire17,524Jul 26, 2013Natural
Whiskey Fire16,195Jul 26, 2013Natural
Grassy Mountain Fire15,720Aug 7, 2013Natural
Dads Fire15,362Jul 26, 2013Natural
Crowley Creek Fire12,935Jun 10, 2013Natural
Grouse Mountain Fire12,076Aug 7, 2013Natural
Sharon Creek Fire10,772Aug 7, 2013Natural
Lava Fire7,500Aug 12, 2013Natural

Every fire of 2013 Oregon 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.