Wildfires of 1970

Cotton Fire

1970AlaskaWildfire

The Cotton Fire burned 1,448 acres in Alaska, in 1970. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,448 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,448 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 65.816, -159.912.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,448 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKKOY
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1970-AKKOY-009622
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Digitized from 1985 Landsat image (P78 R14) and 1975 Landsat image (P86 R14).

Other large fires in Alaska in 197012

Every fire of 1970 Alaska fire history

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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.