Birch Creek Fire
The Birch Creek Fire burned 56,592 acres in Alaska, in 1943. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 56,592 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 56,592 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 66.303, -145.338.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 56,592 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKFOR
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1943-AKFOR-0003 A
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter digitized from hand drawn fire map and 199 landsat image P69 R13.
Other large fires in Alaska in 19437
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black River Fire | 121,201 | ||
| Graveyard Lake Fire | 41,172 | ||
| Chandalar River Fire | 7,707 | ||
| Iliamna Lake Fire | 5,999 | ||
| Rock Slough Fire | 5,633 | ||
| Mile 245 ARR Fire | 3,484 | ||
| Beluga #1 Fire | 1,810 |
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.