Wildfires of 1963

Koliganek Fire

1963AlaskaWildfire

The Koliganek Fire burned 3,254 acres in Alaska, in 1963. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
3,254 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 3,254 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 59.996, -157.038.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
3,254 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKCI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1963-AKCI-000080
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter modified from 1974 Landsat image P78 R18.

Other large fires in Alaska in 19632

FireAcresStartCause
Kobuk 5 Fire4,360
Cheeneetnuk River Fire1,696

Every fire of 1963 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.