Fyu W 90 Fire
The Fyu W 90 Fire burned 69,048 acres in Alaska, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 26, 1988.
- Size
- 69,048 acres
- Ignition
- June 26, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 69,048 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 66.451, -149.092.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 69,048 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 71,839 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 26, 1988
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKUYK
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-AKUYK-832052
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6643314896919880626
- 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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||
| Fire 832097 | 51,390 | ||
| Hoho Fire | 38,743 | ||
| Wbq Nw 30 Fire | 28,345 | ||
| Fire 832093 | 27,196 |
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.