Wildfires of 1972

Cable Fire

1972AlaskaWildfire

The Cable Fire burned 6,701 acres in Alaska, in 1972. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
6,701 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 6,701 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 64.688, -160.726.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
6,701 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKKOY
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1972-AKKOY-008680
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Digitized from 1979 Landsat image (P83 R15).

Other large fires in Alaska in 197212

Every fire of 1972 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.