Wildfires of 1942

Eska Fire

1942AlaskaWildfire

The Eska Fire burned 13,388 acres in Alaska, in 1942. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
13,388 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 13,388 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 61.752, -148.827.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
13,388 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKANC
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1942-AKANC-000005
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Heads-up digitized from map found in fire folder.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19423

FireAcresStartCause
Road Commission Fire6,438
Buffalo Fire5,578
Anderson Fire2,375

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.