Wildfires of 1950

Venetie Fire

1950AlaskaWildfire

The Venetie Fire burned 600,996 acres in Alaska, in 1950. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
600,996 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 600,996 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 67.097, -146.461.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
600,996 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1950-AKFAI-000070
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter partially modified from 1999 Landsat image P69 R13.

Other large fires in Alaska in 195012

Every fire of 1950 Alaska fire history

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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.