Wildfires of 1991

Scottie Mountain Fire

1991AlaskaWildfire

The Scottie Mountain Fire burned 2,261 acres in Alaska, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 1991.

Size
2,261 acres
Ignition
June 23, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,261 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 62.775, -141.055.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,261 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,993 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 23, 1991
State
Alaska
Agency
DVF
Unit
AKTAS
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1991-AKTAS-113415
MTBS fire identifier
AK6278314106719910623
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Image Interpretation
Note on the perimeter
Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Imae ID: LT05_L2SP_063016_19910916_20200915_02_T1.

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 199112

FireAcresStartCause
Btt Wsw 84 Fire187,908
Yukon Flats 26 Fire122,822Jun 30, 1991
Fire 131569109,499Jun 30, 1991
Fire 13224186,444
Fire 13246075,207
Cem Ne 20 Fire56,431
Liv N 18 Fire48,565
Btt S 17 Fire43,568Jun 30, 1991
Mhm N 25 Fire42,326
Fire 13237641,530
Cem E 55 Fire37,834
Btt W 64 Fire35,602Jul 1, 1991

Every fire of 1991 Alaska fire history

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.