Wildfires of 1950

Nation River #1 Fire

1950AlaskaWildfire

The Nation River #1 Fire burned 48,854 acres in Alaska, in 1950. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
48,854 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 48,854 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 65.392, -142.197.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
48,854 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1950-AKFAI-000078
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter modified from 2000 Landsat image P67 R14.

Other large fires in Alaska in 195012

Every fire of 1950 Alaska fire history

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.