Wildfires of 1973

Sled Fire

1973AlaskaWildfire

The Sled Fire burned 9,317 acres in Alaska, in 1973. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
9,317 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 9,317 acres, mapped by digitized. Middle of the perimeter, 64.286, -148.663.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
9,317 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKFAI
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1973-AKFAI-008668
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Modified perimeter from 2001Landsat image (P70 R15).

Other large fires in Alaska in 19735

FireAcresStartCause
Bear Fire23,830
Koyukuk Fire11,945
Nageethluk Fire10,484
Pastolik Fire4,160
Golsovia Fire2,921

Every fire of 1973 Alaska fire history

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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.