Craig Interagency Dispatch Center 2018 Year End Report
Silver Creek night burn
Cooperating Agencies
Bureau of Land Management United States Forest Service National Park Service US Fish and Wildlife Service Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control Moffat, Routt, Rio Blanco, Jackson & Grand Counties https://gacc.nifc.gov/rmcc/dispatch_centers/r2crc/ Craig Interagency Dispatch Center (CRC) 2018 Year End Report
2018 was a very active year for the Craig Dispatch Zone. There were 207 fires for 75,655 acres, below the 5 year average of 211 fires but well over our 5 year average of 25,328 acres. The largest fire of the year was the Ryan Fire on the Medicine Bow/Routt National Forest for a total of 28,585 acres of which 25,310 acres burned into WY on the Casper Dispatch Zone. The largest fires entirely within the Craig Dispatch Zone were the Silver Creek Fire, also in the Medicine Bow/Route National Forest, for 20,120 acres followed closely by the Divide Fire, 19,955 acres, on Moffat County.
Spring started out fairly dry. Our first fire occurred on February 9th on BLM land about 3 miles ENE of Bond, CO. There were a few fires in April and May but the season didn’t really begin until June. June saw several large fires reported with Fourmile (270 acres) and Mud Springs (274 acres) both starting on June 12th and Divide (19,995 acres) on June 29th. June had a total of 27 fires reported.
July was our busiest month with 76 fires. August was close behind with 60 fires. September saw 31 fires and October ended the season with 2 fires. The last fire of the year was the 2 acre Spooky Fire in Jackson County on October 31st.
Craig handled 428 overhead, equipment, aircraft and crew resource orders to assist firefighting efforts in the GACC and other parts of the country. Local ROSS orders, including aircraft, for local incidents (including reassignments) totaled 9,429 for a total of 9,867 orders filled, well above the five-year average (2013-2017) of 3,495.
There were 6 Type II incidents (Fawn, Silver Creek, Indian Valley, Sulphur, Red Canyon and Ryan), the rest of our incidents were Type III thru V. The dispatch center was busy this season with Expanded Dispatch in place for 77 days and 24 hr staffing for 76 days. The Center was fully staffed. We had a few local militia and a couple injured firefighters helping in the IA office as well. Thanks to everyone who helped this year!
In addition to wildland fires, the dispatch center supported all of our agencies’ prescribed fire and fuels programs.
A total of 670 incident actions were processed in WildCAD, including wildland fires, prescribed fires, resource orders, public assists, aircraft flight following, and miscellaneous actions.
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2018 CRC Fire Summary
Wildland Fire Statistics
Total Total Unit Lightning Fires Lightning Acres Human Fires Human Acres Unit Fires Acres ARR 0 0 1 0.1 1 0.1 BPR 1 0.1 0 0 1 0.1 DSP 5 56.7 1 17 6 73.7 EAX 0 0 0 0 0 0 GFX 0 0 0 0 0 0 GRX 0 4536 6 31.2 6 4567.2 JCX 0 0 3 47.5 3 47.5 KRD 0 11 4 247.5 4 258.5 LSD 29 1788 4 7478 33 9266 MFX 25 2062.1 13 23316 38 25378.1 RBX 7 2769.45 8 52.3 15 2821.75 MRF 16 15580.65 7 3065.65 23 18646.3 RTX 4 692 11 210 15 902 WRD 56 13279.25 6 414.8 62 13694.05 Totals 143 40775.25 64 34880.05 207 75655.3
Fires by Agency Owner and Cause
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0 BLM NPS FWS USFS PVT Total Lightning 85 5 1 16 36 143 Human 14 1 1 7 41 64
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Acres Burned By Agency Owner and Cause Includes fires that burned across multiple agency lands
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0.0 BLM NPS FWS USFS PVT Total Lightning Acres 15,078.3 56.7 0.1 15,580.7 10,059.6 40,775.3 Human Acres 8,140.3 17.0 0.1 3,065.7 23,657.0 34,880.1
Fire and Acres by Agency and Cause
Human Human Acres Lightning Lightning Acres Agency Fires Agency Acres BLM 14 8,140.3 85 15,078.3 99 23,218.6 NPS 1 17.0 5 56.7 6 73.7 FWS 1 0.1 1 0.1 2 0.2 USFS 7 3,065.7 16 15,580.7 23 18,646.3 PVT 41 23,657.0 36 10,059.6 77 33,716.6 Total 64 34,880.1 143 40,775.3 207 75,655.3
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Large Fires and Fires Managed for Resource Benefit Fires listed below were one of the following; 100 acres in Timber, 300 acres in Grass/Brush, Managed for Resource Benefit (MMO), or had significant resource commitment
Incident Start Cause Final Agency State & Team Team Name Date Acreage Unit Name Type
Fourmile 6/12/18 U 270 BLM CO-LSD St. Martin Type 3
Mud Springs 6/12/18 H 274 County CO-MFX St. Martin Type 3
Divide 6/29/18 U 19955 County CO-MFX Wheeler Type 3
Thornburg 7/6/18 L 1636 County CO-MFX Frary Type 3
Fawn 7/7/18 L 1119 BLM CO-WRD NW Team Type 2
Skunk Creek 7/8/18 L 650 BLM CO-LSD Smith Type 3
Winter 7/15/18 L 214 County CO-MFX T. Lewis Type 3
Silver Creek 7/19/18 L 20120 USFS WY-MRF Blue Team Type 2
Indian Valley 7/20/18 L 6310 BLM CO-WRD SW Team Type 2
Sulphur 7/22/18 L 976 BLM CO-WRD SW Team Type 2
Red Canyon 7/29/18 L 5722 BLM CO-WRD SW Team Type 2
Lone Mountain 8/2/18 L 490 County CO-MFX Charpentier Type 4
Three Springs 8/13/18 H 550 BLM CO-WRD Voegtle Type 3
Citadel 8/24/18 L 298 County CO-MFX Jacob Type 4
James 8/31/18 L 324 BLM CO-WRD Frary Type 4
Murphy 8/31/18 L 685 County CO-RTX Leck Type 5
Boone Draw 9/13/18 U 8610 BLM CO-LSD Toelle Type 3
Three Wash 9/13/18 L 369 BLM CO-LSD Charpentier Type 4
Ryan 9/15/18 H 28585 USFS WY-MRF Black Team Type 2
Indian Valley 4
Number of Fires 250 227 227 211 211 207 202 200 186
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0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Average 2018
Number of Acres 80,000 75,655
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60,000
50,000 54,876 39,969 40,000
30,000 21,282 20,000 25,328 6,049 10,000
0 4,463 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Average 2018
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2018 WildCAD Incident Action Summary
Total WildCAD Incidents: 670 (NOTE: Wildfires include the Bender Mountain fire that started in Utah) Aircraft Smoke Checks and False Alarms 3 Duplicates 55 Miscellaneous 52 152 Wildfires 208
Prescribed Fire 11 Medical/Search and Public Assist Rescue Resource Orders 0 6 136
Prescribed Fire Summary
The USFWS, Forest Service, and BLM completed a total of 1381.4 acres of piles, broadcast, and underburning in the Dispatch Area in 2018.
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CRC Resource Order Statistics
ROSS Orders Filled (Includes Incoming and Outgoing Orders)
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0 Aircraft Crews Equipment Overhead Supply National 2 9 50 90 0 R2 47 12 19 93 0 Local 147 25 175 438 4563
Local ROSS Orders Placed by Unit
4500 4000 3500 3000 2500 2000 1500 1000 500 0 KRD LSD WRD DSP ARR BPR MRF CRC/CR State/P D vt Supply 1 340 1622 17 0 0 2480 31 327 Overhead 2 185 608 14 0 0 795 218 143 Equipment 0 141 442 10 0 1 531 63 206 Crews 0 18 110 0 0 64 1 20 Aircraft 0 136 356 21 0 0 272 82 172
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Regional and National ROSS Orders Filled by Unit
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0 KRD LSD WRD DSP ARR BPR MRF CRC/CRD State/Pvt Overhead 1 6 1 8 0 4 34 34 2 Equipment 0 0 0 10 0 3 6 11 9 Crews 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 Aircraft 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
ROSS Orders Processed: Five-Year Average, 2013-2017 5 Year Average ROSS Orders Processed 12000
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Crew Summary
On-Unit Crew Orders Filled: 57
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Type 1 Type 2 or 2 IA Crew Camp
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Out of Area Crew Orders Filled: 20
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Type 1 7 Type 2 or 2 IA
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10-Year Historic Crew Use within the CRC Zone NUMBER OF NUMBER OF YEAR CREWS DAYS 2018 142^^^ 1103^^^ 2017 57^^ 216^^ 2016 70^ 370^ 2015 14 41 2014 21 58 2013 38 186 2012 61 139 2011 17* 80* 2010 53** 339** 2009 32*** 135*** *Includes 4 crews for 42 days on bark beetle work **Includes 25 crews for 269 days on bark beetle work ***Includes 5 crews for 46 days on bark beetle work ^Includes 8 camp crews for 67 days ^^Includes 5 Camp Crews for 17 days ^^^Includes 12 camp crews for 152 days
Yampa Fire
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Craig Hotshot 2018 Summary The crew started the season off April 30th with their critical 80 hours of mandatory training. This year the crew took another week available as a T2IA to allow extra training to personnel. On May 19th a preposition to Durango, CO. The crew spent 3 shifts reinforcing existing control lines of the Sauls Creek burn unit and doing a roving patrol of the area. From there the crew went to the Park Creek near Southfork, CO. The crew then rolled to the Continental Reservoir fire north of Creede, CO. Next up the 416 Fire near Hermosa, CO. On June 28th we did half a day of project work then got ordered for the Golf Course fire outside of Grand Lake, CO. From there they were reassigned to the Weston Pass Fire outside of Fairplay, CO. They then rolled to the Lake Christine fire outside El Jebel, CO. The crew then rolled to the Red Canyon fire outside Rangely, CO, then get reassigned to the Bull Draw fire near Nucla, CO. On August 23rd they were ordered on a preposition for Oregon while enroute the crew got reassigned to the Terwilliger fire outside McKenzie Bridge, OR. The crew opted to go unavailable for the last pay period, which allowed them to provide the local district with overhead for all the local IA Craig had this season.
Aircraft Summary
Aircraft Use in Days by Aircraft Type
Lead, 18 Large AT, 51 MMA, 66
Air Attack, 81
SEAT, 232
Hel3, 58
Hel2, 44 Hel1, 36
TOTAL USE IN DAYS: 586
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Aircraft Orders by Aircraft Type
MMA, 66 Lead, 18 Large AT, 51
Air Attack, 121 SEAT, 232
Hel3, 242 Hel1, 113
Hel2, 90
TOTAL ORDERS: 933
Craig SEAT Base usage
The Craig SEAT Base was up and running again for the 2018 fire season. There were 185 requests using 372,196 gallons of retardant, 39,971 gallons of gel and 7,721 gallons of water.
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