Wildfires of 1988

Fyu Ne 50 Fire

1988AlaskaWildfire

The Fyu Ne 50 Fire burned 132,474 acres in Alaska, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 27, 1988.

Size
132,474 acres
Ignition
June 27, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 132,474 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 67.056, -143.769.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
132,474 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
119,960 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 27, 1988
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKUYK
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1988-AKUYK-00A144
MTBS fire identifier
AK6705614376919880627
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

FireAcresStartCause
Fire 832015558,929
Fire 832604294,002Jun 29, 1988
Fire 832032209,360
Fire 831023141,741
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
Fire 83209327,196

Every fire of 1988 Alaska fire history

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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.