Wildfires of 1943

Beluga #1 Fire

1943AlaskaWildfire

The Beluga #1 Fire burned 1,810 acres in Alaska, in 1943. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,810 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,810 acres, mapped by image analysis. Middle of the perimeter, 61.464, -151.532.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,810 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKANC
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1943-AKANC-0053 A
Perimeter map method
Image Analysis
Note on the perimeter
Heads-up digitized from hand drawn map found in fire folder. Perimeter is approximate.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19437

Every fire of 1943 Alaska fire history

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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.