Perkinsville Fire
The Perkinsville Fire burned 1,408 acres in Yavapai County, Arizona, in 2013. It was discovered on April 30, 2013, and contained on May 1, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,408 acres
- Discovered
- April 30, 2013
- Contained
- May 1, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,553 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.736, -112.390.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,408 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,553 acres
- Discovered
- April 30, 2013, 12:29 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 1, 2013, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Arizona
- County
- Yavapai County
- Reporting unit
- Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AZ3473611239020130430
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013AZAZS130268
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 6
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $35,000, in 2013 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Other large fires in Arizona in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creek Fire | 18,076 | Jun 16, 2013 | Natural |
| Fourmile Fire | 14,255 | Jun 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Soldier Basin Fire | 10,775 | May 17, 2013 | Human |
| Yarnell Hill Fire | 8,877 | Jun 28, 2013 | Natural |
| Doce Fire | 6,767 | Jun 18, 2013 | Human |
| Beaver Fire | 5,803 | Jul 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Dean Peak Fire | 5,413 | Jun 29, 2013 | Natural |
| Island Lake Fire | 3,200 | May 19, 2013 | Human |
| Eastwood Mesa Fire | 2,600 | Aug 15, 2013 | Natural |
| Prospect Fire | 1,625 | Aug 2, 2013 | Natural |
| Skinner Fire | 1,463 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| White Fire | 1,433 | Jul 5, 2013 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.