Porcupine Fire
The Porcupine Fire burned 2,162 acres in Alaska, in 1946. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 2,162 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,162 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 67.143, -141.622.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,162 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKFOR
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1946-AKFOR-000038
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter digitized from 2000 Landsat image P67 R13. Uncertain if this fire scar is from a 1946 or 1950 fire.
Other large fires in Alaska in 194610
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Black Fire | 170,655 | ||
| Betttles Field Fire | 88,764 | ||
| Little Salmon Fire | 43,595 | ||
| Circle Fire | 34,931 | ||
| Sand Dune Fire | 17,706 | ||
| Batza Fire | 15,202 | ||
| Haggard Fire | 4,800 | ||
| Davis Fire | 4,007 | ||
| Rogers Creek Fire | 2,685 | ||
| Dahl River Fire | 2,444 |
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.