Red Shale Fire
The Red Shale Fire burned 12,379 acres in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in 2013. It was discovered on July 18, 2013, and contained on September 26, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 12,379 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2013
- Contained
- September 26, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 13,705 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.804, -113.009.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,379 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 13,705 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 12,538 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2013, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 26, 2013, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4780411300920130718
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1514819
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 Montana in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Pan Complex | 41,763 | Jul 16, 2013 | Natural |
| Miner Paradise Complex | 10,850 | Jul 21, 2013 | Natural |
| Damnation Fire | 8,246 | Aug 12, 2013 | Natural |
| Eureka Fire | 6,768 | Aug 12, 2013 | Natural |
| West Mullan Fire | 6,282 | Jul 14, 2013 | Human |
| West Fork 2 Fire | 6,000 | Aug 18, 2013 | Natural |
| Schoolhouse Fire | 4,902 | Aug 18, 2013 | Natural |
| Moose Meadows Fire | 3,500 | Jul 25, 2013 | Natural |
| Winter Fire | 2,756 | Jan 8, 2013 | Human |
| Firestone Fire | 1,570 | Jul 27, 2013 | Human |
| Peoples Creek Fire | 1,538 | Nov 19, 2013 | Human |
| NezPeak Fire | 1,341 |
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.