Wildfires of 1987

Fbk E 155 Fire

1987AlaskaWildfire

The Fbk E 155 Fire burned 2,965 acres in Alaska, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 1987.

Size
2,965 acres
Ignition
June 23, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,965 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 64.315, -141.930.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,965 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,491 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 23, 1987
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKCHP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1987-AKCHP-00B080
MTBS fire identifier
AK6431514193019870623
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Image Interpretation
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LT04_L2SP_066015_19880702_20200917_02_T1.

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 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Granite Creek Fire40,821May 22, 1987
Fire 73207638,935
Fyu S 39 Fire16,809Jul 13, 1987
Eielson Fire9,629Jun 23, 1987
Fyu Ne 96 Fire9,031Jul 11, 1987
Cem W 44 Fire8,775
Fyu Ne 47 Fire7,469
Fire 7310157,456Jul 6, 1987
Landmark Fire4,165Jun 10, 1987
Tik Hill Fire3,583
Fire 7320503,519
Fyu W 37 Fire2,842Jul 15, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Alaska fire history

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.