Porcupine Fire
The Porcupine Fire burned 4,700 acres in Alaska, in 1993. It was discovered on July 16, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,700 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,852 acres. Point of origin as reported, 64.633, -144.817.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,700 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,852 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,801 acres
- Discovered
- July 16, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Fairbanks Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKFAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1993-AKFAS-311577
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6465414481119930716
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- AK-FAS-1993-311577
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LT05_L2SP_066015_19940711_20200913_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 199312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire 332557 | 215,360 | Jul 14, 1993 | Natural |
| DCKN190 Fire | 82,370 | Jul 22, 1993 | Natural |
| Fire 3322292 | 47,494 | Jun 6, 1993 | Natural |
| Fire 332248 | 36,250 | Jun 4, 1993 | Natural |
| Timber Fire | 29,761 | May 30, 1993 | |
| Swift Fire | 28,010 | Jul 12, 1993 | Natural |
| Tal N 25 Fire | 26,200 | Jun 30, 1993 | Natural |
| Discovery Fire | 23,501 | Jun 2, 1993 | Natural |
| Cem Se 34 Fire | 21,210 | Jun 15, 1993 | Natural |
| Fyu N 60 Fire | 20,942 | Jul 15, 1993 | Natural |
| DCKN178 Fire | 16,740 | Jul 3, 1993 | Natural |
| Pole Fire | 11,550 | Jul 19, 1993 | Natural |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.