Buffalo Fire
The Buffalo Fire burned 5,578 acres in Alaska, in 1942. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 5,578 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 5,578 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 61.724, -148.999.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,578 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKANC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1942-AKANC-000017
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Heads up digitized from map found in fire folder.
Other large fires in Alaska in 19423
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eska Fire | 13,388 | ||
| Road Commission Fire | 6,438 | ||
| Anderson Fire | 2,375 |
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.