Wildfire in Alaska, June 4 to 5, 1999

Name: Wildfire in Alaska, June 4 to 5, 1999
Start: 1999-06-04T17:00
End: 1999-06-05T23:00
Location: Alaska

June 4 to 5, 1999 · NWS AFC · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $15,000
Crop damage: $10,000
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Cook Inlet

When: June 4, 5:00 PM AST to June 5, 11:00 PM AST
Where: Cook Inlet County, 11 mi E of Homer
Property damage: $15,000
Crop damage: $10,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

A wildfire began around 5pm Friday, when brisk north winds, following a dry and very modified arctic front, fanned a slash burn on Hutler Road. Embers from the fire apparently blew into tall, dead grass, burned quickly across a meadow and into the dead spruce trees (due to spruce bark beetle kill during the last few years). The fire burned downhill toward East End Road and Kachemak Bay. One mobile home was destroyed and 20 homes were threatened. Close to 75 acres were burned.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alaska in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, June 1999

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5708337.