Hot Slough Fire
The Hot Slough Fire burned 26,393 acres in Alaska, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 9, 1990.
- Size
- 26,393 acres
- Ignition
- July 9, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 26,393 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 63.711, -152.033.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 26,393 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 25,084 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 9, 1990
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AKTAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1990-AKTAD-00A255
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6371115203319900709
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Modified perimeter from 1992 Landsat image (P71 R15).
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 199012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fyu Ne 85 Fire | 438,445 | Jun 29, 1990 | |
| Kan 7 Fire | 367,541 | Jul 2, 1990 | |
| Fire 032018 | 333,320 | Jun 27, 1990 | |
| Birch Hill Fire | 159,775 | ||
| Fire 032038 | 152,789 | ||
| Moose Crk Fire | 139,821 | ||
| Fire 032042 | 123,277 | Jul 2, 1990 | |
| Kokwim Fire | 116,527 | ||
| Tok River Fire | 95,722 | Jul 1, 1990 | |
| Dennis Fire | 74,287 | ||
| Fire 032051 | 66,443 | ||
| Tal N 47 Fire | 62,212 |
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.