Wildfires of 1944

Birch Creek Fire

1944AlaskaWildfire

The Birch Creek Fire burned 96,142 acres in Alaska, in 1944. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
96,142 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 96,142 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 66.447, -145.583.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
96,142 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFOR
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1944-AKFOR-067 NA
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter digitized from hand drawn fire map and 1999 landsat image P69 R13.

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.