Wildfires of 1985

Otz Ne 100 Fire

1985AlaskaWildfire

The Otz Ne 100 Fire burned 5,772 acres in Alaska, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to August 7, 1985.

Size
5,772 acres
Ignition
August 7, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,772 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 68.063, -159.436.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,772 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
5,375 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 7, 1985
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKGAL
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1985-AKGAL-00B228
MTBS fire identifier
AK6806315943619850807
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
Digitized perimeter from 1986 Landsat image (P79 R12) taken on 6/30/1986.

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

FireAcresStartCause
Fire 53104778,940Aug 6, 1985
Fire 53101853,909
Fire 53103534,192
Fyu Ne 80 Fire33,505
Gal Ne 57 Fire33,438
Tal Nw 85 Fire16,805Jul 31, 1985
Hus Nw 23 Fire14,583
Fire 53102312,141Jul 15, 1985
Katlitna Fire8,804
Fire 5310217,177
Selatna Fire6,855
Sugarloaf Fire5,191

Every fire of 1985 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. 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.