Sand Dune Fire
The Sand Dune Fire burned 17,706 acres in Alaska, in 1946. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 17,706 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 17,706 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 67.059, -159.094.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 17,706 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKRUB
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1946-AKRUB-000018
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter roughly digitized based on 1985 Landsat image P78 R13, fire narrative, and sketch of fire location. Southern half of perimeter difficult to determine.
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 | ||
| Batza Fire | 15,202 | ||
| Haggard Fire | 4,800 | ||
| Davis Fire | 4,007 | ||
| Rogers Creek Fire | 2,685 | ||
| Dahl River Fire | 2,444 | ||
| Porcupine Fire | 2,162 |
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.