Tal Sw 65 Fire
The Tal Sw 65 Fire burned 1,083 acres in Alaska, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 16, 1988.
- Size
- 1,083 acres
- Ignition
- July 16, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,083 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 64.537, -154.064.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,083 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,079 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 16, 1988
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKTAL
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-AKTAL-00A271
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6455015403319880716
- MTBS assessment
- Extended (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Heads-up digitized perimeter from Landsat 7 1999 image, and map found in fire folder.
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 | ||
| Fyu W 90 Fire | 69,048 | Jun 26, 1988 | |
| Fire 832097 | 51,390 | ||
| Hoho Fire | 38,743 | ||
| Wbq Nw 30 Fire | 28,345 |
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.