Leonard Fire
The Leonard Fire burned 6,384 acres in Louisiana, in 2013. It was discovered on September 4, 2013, and contained on September 8, 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to September 5, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,384 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 2013
- Contained
- September 8, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,226 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.850, -93.509.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,384 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,226 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,396 acres
- Discovered
- September 4, 2013, 12:45 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 5, 2013
- Contained
- September 8, 2013, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Unit
- LASBR
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Apache Fire
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-LASBR-HYG1
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2985009350920130905
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2013LASBRHYG1
- Note on the perimeter
- This fire was caused by lightning in Unit 2 of Sabine NWR. Oil and Gas facilities along Second Bayou Rd were burned-out around during the first day's initial attack activities. After additional resources arrived, the rest of the unit was burned-out using
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 Louisiana in 20135
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,437 | Feb 28, 2013 | |
| Apache Fire | 3,111 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 1,477 | Feb 28, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,354 | Feb 28, 2013 | |
| Chainlink Fire | 1,340 | Sep 4, 2013 | Natural |
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.