Wildfires of 1943

Graveyard Lake Fire

1943AlaskaWildfire

The Graveyard Lake Fire burned 41,172 acres in Alaska, in 1943. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
41,172 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 41,172 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 66.745, -143.924.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
41,172 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFOR
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1943-AKFOR-018 NA
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Digitized from hand drawn fire map and 2000 Landsat image P67 R13. Perimeter is approximate.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19437

Every fire of 1943 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.