Wood Chopper Fire
The Wood Chopper Fire burned 13,569 acres in Alaska, in 1967. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 13,569 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 13,569 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 65.331, -143.535.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 13,569 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKFAI
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1967-AKFAI-000Y78
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Digitized from 1976 Landsat image P73 R14 and referenced Landsat browse image # LM10730141972234AAA03.
Other large fires in Alaska in 196712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogers Fire | 28,675 | ||
| Ridgeway Fire | 9,014 | ||
| Sand Cr Fire | 7,783 | ||
| Nation River Fire | 7,045 | ||
| Beaver Creek Fire | 5,453 | ||
| Taylor Mt Fire | 5,428 | ||
| Funnel Creek Fire | 4,665 | ||
| Black River Fire | 3,458 | ||
| Vreeland Fire | 3,320 | ||
| Iditarod Fire | 2,595 | ||
| Ahtell Creek Fire | 2,257 | ||
| Union Creek Fire | 1,876 |
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.