Wildfires of 2013

Mile Marker 28 Fire

2013WashingtonWildfire

The Mile Marker 28 Fire burned 26,093 acres in Washington, in 2013. It was discovered on July 24, 2013, and contained on September 26, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
26,093 acres
Discovered
July 24, 2013
Contained
September 26, 2013
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 25,608 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.996, -120.651.

The record

Reported final size
26,093 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
25,608 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
26,091 acres
Discovered
July 24, 2013, 10:50 a.m. local time
Contained
September 26, 2013, 4:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Washington
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Yakama Agency
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WAYAA
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2013-WAYAA-000081
MTBS fire identifier
WA4599612064920130724
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-661702

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 Washington in 201312

FireAcresStartCause
Colockum Tarps Fire80,053Jul 27, 2013Human
Desmarais Fire10,130Jun 7, 2013
Milepost 10 Fire5,541Aug 9, 2013Natural
Jojo Fire4,243Aug 11, 2013Natural
Dead Canyon Fire3,280Sep 10, 2013
Mail Trail Fire2,450Jun 8, 2013Human
Manastash Ridge Fire2,352Aug 19, 2013Natural
25 Mile Fire2,096Jul 4, 2013Human
Mile Marker 44 Fire1,819
Moore Point Fire1,650Jul 28, 2013Natural
B and O Fire1,537Jul 15, 2013Human
Eagle Fire1,476Aug 19, 2013Human

Every fire of 2013 Washington 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.