40 Mile Yukon Fire
The 40 Mile Yukon Fire burned 168,728 acres in Alaska, in 1953. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 168,728 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 168,728 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 66.271, -144.176.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 168,728 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKFYU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1953-AKFYU-0FY-13
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter digitized from 2000 Landsat image P67 R14 and hand drawn fire map. Perimeter is approximate.
Other large fires in Alaska in 195312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nowitna #3 Fire | 99,379 | ||
| Sheenjek Fire | 68,664 | ||
| Melozitna-Tozitna Fire | 18,760 | ||
| Crazy Mountain Fire | 16,706 | ||
| Kanuti River Fire | 16,146 | ||
| Pilot Station Fire | 15,320 | ||
| Mile 53 Taylor Fire | 15,229 | ||
| Beaver Creek Fire | 14,059 | ||
| Tanalian Mt. Fire | 12,561 | ||
| Kotol River Fire | 11,192 | ||
| South Kotol MT Fire | 10,407 | ||
| Stevens Village NE 70 Fire | 5,909 |
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.