Wildfires of 1942

Anderson Fire

1942AlaskaWildfire

The Anderson Fire burned 2,375 acres in Alaska, in 1942. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,375 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,375 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 61.638, -149.318.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,375 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKANC
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1942-AKANC-000007
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Heads-up digitized perimeter using map found in fire folder.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19423

FireAcresStartCause
Eska Fire13,388
Road Commission Fire6,438
Buffalo Fire5,578

Every fire of 1942 Alaska fire history

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. 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.