Wildfires of 1972

Coma Fire

1972AlaskaWildfire

The Coma Fire burned 10,096 acres in Alaska, in 1972. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
10,096 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 10,096 acres, mapped by hand sketch. Middle of the perimeter, 64.308, -151.084.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
10,096 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1972-AKFAI-008889
Perimeter map method
Hand Sketch
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter imported from fire history, modified using a georeferenced version of the map in the fire report.

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.