Sand Springs Fire
The Sand Springs Fire burned 2,200 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2013. It was discovered on July 2, 2013, and contained on July 5, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,200 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 2013
- Contained
- July 5, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,164 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.961, -117.818.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,164 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,213 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 2013, 1:38 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 5, 2013, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Malheur County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Vale District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORVAD
- Part of
- Crooked Creek Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-ORVAD-000046
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4296111781820130702
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-657553
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.
- Cost reported by the teams
- $75,000, in 2013 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Other large fires in Oregon in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyside Turnoff Fire | 53,000 | Jul 20, 2013 | Human |
| Owyhee Fire | 46,445 | Jul 1, 2013 | Natural |
| Big Windy Complex | 26,725 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Cedar Mountain Fire | 23,948 | Aug 8, 2013 | Natural |
| North Rabbit Fire | 17,524 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Whiskey Fire | 16,195 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Grassy Mountain Fire | 15,720 | Aug 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Dads Fire | 15,362 | Jul 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Crowley Creek Fire | 12,935 | Jun 10, 2013 | Natural |
| Grouse Mountain Fire | 12,076 | Aug 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Sharon Creek Fire | 10,772 | Aug 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Lava Fire | 7,500 | Aug 12, 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. 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.