Wildfires of 1947

Tanacross Fire

1947AlaskaWildfire

The Tanacross Fire burned 1,828 acres in Alaska, in 1947. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,828 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,828 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 63.378, -143.238.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,828 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKTAN
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1947-AKTAN-000055
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter digitized from 2002 Landsat image P65 R16.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19473

FireAcresStartCause
Kenai Fire318,091
22 Mile Tok Road Fire18,781
Big Girstle River Fire5,179

Every fire of 1947 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.