Vivian Cemetery Fire
The Vivian Cemetery Fire burned 1,260 acres in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, in 2013. It was discovered on February 18, 2013, and contained on February 20, 2013. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,260 acres
- Discovered
- February 18, 2013
- Contained
- February 20, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,172 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.644, -95.633.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,260 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,172 acres
- Discovered
- February 18, 2013, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- February 20, 2013, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Pittsburg County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Oklahoma Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3463909563620130218
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013OKOKS20010A
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
- 3
- Most personnel assigned
- 20 on February 20, 2013
- Cost reported by the teams
- $7,000, in 2013 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 20135
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Point Fire | 3,000 | Mar 3, 2013 | Human |
| Buck Trot Fire | 2,108 | Jan 23, 2013 | Human |
| Big High Top Fire | 2,100 | Mar 8, 2013 | Human |
| Haney Fire | 1,606 | Mar 16, 2013 | Human |
| Mccurtain 3722 Fire | 1,000 | Mar 27, 2013 | Human |
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.