Fire 531023
The Fire 531023 burned 12,141 acres in Alaska, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 15, 1985.
- Size
- 12,141 acres
- Ignition
- July 15, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,141 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 66.541, -146.701.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,141 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 11,814 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 15, 1985
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKFAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1985-AKFAS-00B083
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6654114670119850715
- MTBS assessment
- Extended (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter updated using Landsat imagery from 1986.
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Alaska in 198512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire 531047 | 78,940 | Aug 6, 1985 | |
| Fire 531018 | 53,909 | ||
| Fire 531035 | 34,192 | ||
| Fyu Ne 80 Fire | 33,505 | ||
| Gal Ne 57 Fire | 33,438 | ||
| Tal Nw 85 Fire | 16,805 | Jul 31, 1985 | |
| Hus Nw 23 Fire | 14,583 | ||
| Katlitna Fire | 8,804 | ||
| Fire 531021 | 7,177 | ||
| Selatna Fire | 6,855 | ||
| Otz Ne 100 Fire | 5,772 | Aug 7, 1985 | |
| Sugarloaf Fire | 5,191 |
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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.