Wildfires of 1988

Arc Se 32 Fire

1988AlaskaWildfire

The Arc Se 32 Fire burned 14,163 acres in Alaska, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 14, 1988.

Size
14,163 acres
Ignition
July 14, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,163 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 68.009, -144.090.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
14,163 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
17,164 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 14, 1988
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKUYK
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1988-AKUYK-00A254
MTBS fire identifier
AK6800914409019880714
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 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Fire 832015558,929
Fire 832604294,002Jun 29, 1988
Fire 832032209,360
Fire 831023141,741
Fyu Ne 50 Fire132,474Jun 27, 1988
Fire 80402885,819
Fire 83204377,936Jun 15, 1988
Wbq Nw 25 Fire71,387
Fyu W 90 Fire69,048Jun 26, 1988
Fire 83209751,390
Hoho Fire38,743
Wbq Nw 30 Fire28,345

Every fire of 1988 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.