Wildfires of 1960

Granite Mtn Fire

1960AlaskaWildfire

The Granite Mtn Fire burned 41,542 acres in Alaska, in 1960. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
41,542 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 41,542 acres, mapped by not recorded. Middle of the perimeter, 65.254, -161.197.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
41,542 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKKOY
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1960-AKKOY-000049
Perimeter map method
Not Recorded
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter imported from fire history.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19602

FireAcresStartCause
Ft Yukon Fire6,388
Christmas Mtn Fire2,530

Every fire of 1960 Alaska fire history

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.