Sharon Creek Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,571 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.396, -117.133.

Reported final size

10,772 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

10,571 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

10,781 acres

Discovered

August 7, 2013, 3:10 p.m. local time

Contained

August 12, 2013, 10:47 a.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

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2013-ORVAD-000130

MTBS fire identifier

OR4239411714320130807

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

W-662432

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from August 8, 2013 to August 24, 2013. 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 personnel assigned

31 on August 10, 2013

People evacuated, at the most

Evacuations were reported; no count was filed

Cost reported by the teams

$300,000, in 2013 dollars

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Brush (2 feet)

Suppression strategy reported

Full suppression

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 6,000 acres, on August 9, 2013.

Every fire of 2013 Oregon fire history

• Owyhee, NV61 miles southeast of the fire
• Marsing, ID81 miles north of the fire
• Kuna, ID84 miles northeast of the fire
• Nampa, ID84 miles north of the fire
• Homedale, ID85 miles north of the fire
• Wilder, ID89 miles north of the fire

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.