Wildfires of 1958

Far Mountain Fire

1958AlaskaWildfire

The Far Mountain Fire burned 41,711 acres in Alaska, in 1958. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
41,711 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 41,711 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 65.021, -145.445.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
41,711 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1958-AKFAI-000055
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Northern edge of the perimeter (northside of the Middle Fork of the Chena) modified using 2002 Landsat image P69 R14. Unable to verify southern boundary.

Other large fires in Alaska in 195812

Every fire of 1958 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.