Wildfires of 1959

Eilson #1 Fire

1959AlaskaWildfire

The Eilson #1 Fire burned 9,200 acres in Alaska, in 1959. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
9,200 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 9,200 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 64.758, -146.566.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
9,200 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1959-AKFAI-000050
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter modified from 2002 Landsat images P69 R14 and P69 R15.

Other large fires in Alaska in 195912

Every fire of 1959 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.