Six Mile Fire
The Six Mile Fire burned 44,876 acres in Alaska, in 1971. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 44,876 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 44,876 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 62.876, -158.119.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 44,876 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKMCG
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1971-AKMCG-007699
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Digitized perimeter from 1972 Landsat image (P82 R16).
Other large fires in Alaska in 197112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 165-30 Fire | 127,013 | ||
| Bear Mt Fire | 86,912 | ||
| Wien Lake Fire | 65,246 | ||
| Anc Nw 500 Fire | 64,562 | ||
| Shaler Fire | 64,426 | ||
| Delome River Fire | 64,401 | ||
| Correct Fire | 52,373 | ||
| Little Ptarmigan I Fire | 40,950 | ||
| Ella Fire | 28,028 | ||
| Ambler Fire | 26,953 | ||
| England Fire | 25,779 | ||
| Inglutalik Fire | 22,795 |
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.