Butte Creek Fire
The Butte Creek Fire burned 469,185 acres in Alaska, in 1969. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 469,185 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 469,185 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 65.126, -142.149.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 469,185 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKBIG
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1969-AKBIG-009430
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter modified from 1976 Landsat image (P71 R14) and 2000 Landsat image (P67 R14).
Other large fires in Alaska in 196912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holanada Creek Fire | 614,643 | ||
| Niitltoktalogi Fire | 460,044 | ||
| Fishhook Fire | 401,415 | ||
| Bear Fire | 388,815 | ||
| Big Denver Fire | 383,903 | ||
| Ridge Top Fire | 308,393 | ||
| Cottonwood Fire | 177,508 | ||
| Todatontin Fire | 131,853 | ||
| John Hansen Fire | 92,979 | ||
| Ladue River Fire | 89,885 | ||
| Minikakosa Fire | 87,227 | ||
| Swanson River Fire | 85,306 |
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.