Bettles #2 Fire
The Bettles #2 Fire burned 15,553 acres in Alaska, in 1959. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 15,553 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 15,553 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 66.632, -151.949.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 15,553 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKKOY
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1959-AKKOY-000161
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Modified from 1975 Landsat image P80 R13.
Other large fires in Alaska in 195912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sands NE-15 Fire | 108,596 | ||
| Crooked Creek SE-20 Fire | 79,754 | ||
| Yukon Flats #1 Fire | 44,597 | ||
| Selawik SE-40 Fire | 30,549 | ||
| Big Creek Fire | 26,001 | ||
| Black River No. 1 Fire | 21,034 | ||
| Kobuk #3 Fire | 18,411 | ||
| Kobuk #4 Fire | 17,981 | ||
| Kobuk #6 Fire | 16,400 | ||
| Flat E-5 #1 Fire | 14,729 | ||
| Kokrines NW-19 Fire | 13,642 | ||
| Iniakuk Lake E-8 Fire | 12,423 |
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.