Wildfires of 1970

Hunger Fire

1970AlaskaWildfire

The Hunger Fire burned 20,936 acres in Alaska, in 1970. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
20,936 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 20,936 acres, mapped by image interpretation. Middle of the perimeter, 66.078, -158.894.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
20,936 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKKOY
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1970-AKKOY-009633
Perimeter map method
Image Interpretation
Note on the perimeter
Digitized from 1973 Landsat M01 (P084 R014) dated 19730616.

Other large fires in Alaska in 197012

Every fire of 1970 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.