Trail Lake Fire
The Trail Lake Fire burned 3,242 acres in Alaska, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to August 17, 1989.
- Size
- 3,242 acres
- Ignition
- August 17, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,242 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 62.628, -142.328.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,242 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,406 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 17, 1989
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKTAS
- Incident type
- Other fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1989-AKTAS-913027
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6262814232919890817
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Not Recorded
- Note on the perimeter
- Updated by Tetlin FWS in 2006
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 19895
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swinging Dome Fire | 28,863 | Jul 2, 1989 | |
| Crooked Creek Fire | 8,547 | Jul 2, 1989 | |
| Kogoyuk Fire | 5,906 | Jul 4, 1989 | |
| Shotgun Dr Fire | 5,464 | Jul 3, 1989 | |
| Stuver Creek Fire | 4,785 | Jul 12, 1989 |
Nearby
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.