Wf Unit 12 Kickoff Fire
The Wf Unit 12 Kickoff Fire burned 4,729 acres in Jefferson County, Texas, in 2013. It was discovered on October 24, 2013, and contained on October 25, 2013.
- Size
- 4,729 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 2013
- Contained
- October 25, 2013
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,301 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.636, -94.219.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,729 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,301 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,444 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 2013, 7:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 25, 2013, 10:30 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Jefferson County
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Unit
- TXMCR
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-TXMCR-H0HQ
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX2962509426120131024
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2013TXMCRH0HQ
- Note on the perimeter
- A Wildfire burned in unit 12. The Fuel load was to extensive to go direct attack, so crews fell back to natural and man made boundaries and burned out the unit. The helicopter burned out the interior with narrow flank strips to elliminate the smoke hazar
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 Texas in 20138
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 2013 Fire | 2,575 | Aug 24, 2013 | Natural |
| Runnels Ranch Fire | 2,500 | Aug 19, 2013 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,230 | Apr 19, 2013 | |
| Wf Cade Mud Bayou Fire | 2,116 | Jul 30, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,072 | Mar 2, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,801 | Mar 2, 2013 | |
| Sargent Ranch Fire | 1,757 | Feb 15, 2013 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,164 | Mar 18, 2013 |
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.