Wildfires of 1986

Dck Sw 47 Fire

1986AlaskaWildfire

The Dck Sw 47 Fire burned 16,892 acres in Alaska, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to May 31, 1986.

Size
16,892 acres
Ignition
May 31, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,892 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 66.237, -156.341.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
16,892 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
17,216 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
May 31, 1986
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKGAL
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1986-AKGAL-00A037
MTBS fire identifier
AK6623715634119860531
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
Not Recorded
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter imported from fire history.

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 198612

FireAcresStartCause
Fire 63101056,229
Eureka Ck Fire45,315Jun 29, 1986
Fire 63209736,894
Fire 63201028,045
Mhm Se 27 Fire23,112
Fyu N 37 Fire17,159Jul 4, 1986
Fire 63100515,422
Fire 63105315,285
Cik N 40 Fire13,410Jul 1, 1986
Blueberry Fire12,529Jun 15, 1986
Cik E 30 Fire11,991Jul 1, 1986
Gal S 51 Fire11,888

Every fire of 1986 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.