Wildfires of 1987

Skilak 2 Fire

1987AlaskaOther fire

The Skilak 2 Fire burned 2,365 acres in Alaska, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to August 27, 1987.

Size
2,365 acres
Ignition
August 27, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,365 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 60.489, -150.410.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,365 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 27, 1987
State
Alaska
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
AK6048915040919870827
MTBS assessment
Extended
Note on the perimeter
2 year extended assessment suspect burn severity estimate

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
Fbk E 155 Fire2,965Jun 23, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Alaska fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.