Wildfires of 1981

Hus W 5 Fire

1981AlaskaWildfire

The Hus W 5 Fire burned 11,847 acres in Alaska, in 1981. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
11,847 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 11,847 acres, mapped by image interpretation. Middle of the perimeter, 65.980, -154.407.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
11,847 acres
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKGAL
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1981-AKGAL-008621
Perimeter map method
Image Interpretation
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter modified from 1981 Landsat 2 image (P81 R13) acquired on 8/27/1981.

Other large fires in Alaska in 198112

Every fire of 1981 Alaska fire history

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.