Wildfires of 1953

Pilot Station Fire

1953AlaskaWildfire

The Pilot Station Fire burned 15,320 acres in Alaska, in 1953. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
15,320 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 15,320 acres, mapped by remote sensing derived. Middle of the perimeter, 61.423, -162.829.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
15,320 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKHOL
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1953-AKHOL-00UNK5
Perimeter map method
Remote Sensing Derived
Note on the perimeter
Historical perimeter from Landsat MSS 1972-1984.

Other large fires in Alaska in 195312

Every fire of 1953 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.