Milepost 10 Fire
The Milepost 10 Fire burned 5,541 acres in Chelan County, Washington, in 2013. It was discovered on August 9, 2013, and contained on September 15, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,541 acres
- Discovered
- August 9, 2013
- Contained
- September 15, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,055 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.313, -120.165.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,541 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,055 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,564 acres
- Discovered
- August 9, 2013, 11:23 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 15, 2013, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Washington
- County
- Chelan County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- WASES
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-WASES-000490
- MTBS fire identifier
- WA4732812014720130809
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013WADNR297
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colockum Tarps Fire | 80,053 | Jul 27, 2013 | Human |
| Mile Marker 28 Fire | 26,093 | Jul 24, 2013 | Human |
| Desmarais Fire | 10,130 | Jun 7, 2013 | |
| Jojo Fire | 4,243 | Aug 11, 2013 | Natural |
| Dead Canyon Fire | 3,280 | Sep 10, 2013 | |
| Mail Trail Fire | 2,450 | Jun 8, 2013 | Human |
| Manastash Ridge Fire | 2,352 | Aug 19, 2013 | Natural |
| 25 Mile Fire | 2,096 | Jul 4, 2013 | Human |
| Mile Marker 44 Fire | 1,819 | ||
| Moore Point Fire | 1,650 | Jul 28, 2013 | Natural |
| B and O Fire | 1,537 | Jul 15, 2013 | Human |
| Eagle Fire | 1,476 | Aug 19, 2013 | Human |
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.