Wildfires of 1988

Fire 832086

1988AlaskaWildfire

The Fire 832086 burned 23,557 acres in Alaska, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 16, 1988.

Size: 23,557 acres
Ignition: July 16, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 23,557 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 67.198, -144.932.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 23,557 acres
Area inside the final perimeter: 23,726 acres
Ignition (MTBS): July 16, 1988
State: Alaska
Agency: AFS
Unit: AKUYK
Incident type: Wildfire
Unique fire identifier: 1988-AKUYK-832086
MTBS fire identifier: AK6719814493219880716
MTBS assessment: Extended
Perimeter map method: Digitized
Note on the perimeter: Perimeter modified from 1999 Landsat image P69 R13.

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

Fire	Acres	Start
Fire 832015	558,929
Fire 832604	294,002	Jun 29, 1988
Fire 832032	209,360
Fire 831023	141,741
Fyu Ne 50 Fire	132,474	Jun 27, 1988
Fire 804028	85,819
Fire 832043	77,936	Jun 15, 1988
Wbq Nw 25 Fire	71,387
Fyu W 90 Fire	69,048	Jun 26, 1988
Fire 832097	51,390
Hoho Fire	38,743
Wbq Nw 30 Fire	28,345

Every fire of 1988 Alaska fire history

Nearby

Fort Yukon, AK45 miles south of the fire

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.