Iditarod Fire
The Iditarod Fire burned 7,720 acres in Alaska, in 1972. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 7,720 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 7,720 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 62.669, -157.638.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,720 acres
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKMCG
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1972-AKMCG-007649
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Digitized perimeterfrom 1972 Landsat image (R82 P16).
Other large fires in Alaska in 197212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge Fire | 239,326 | ||
| Pah River Fire | 92,571 | ||
| Tobys Cabin Fire | 84,255 | ||
| Sand Dunes Fire | 44,826 | ||
| Well Fire | 28,097 | ||
| Kurti Flats Fire | 27,730 | ||
| Bergman Creek Fire | 24,345 | ||
| Donkey Fire | 17,185 | ||
| Rocky Bottom Fire | 14,271 | ||
| Dillinger Fire | 12,940 | ||
| Slam Fire | 12,892 | ||
| Gorkey Fire | 11,829 |
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.