East Fork Fire
The East Fork Fire burned 15,360 acres in Alaska, in 1997. It was discovered on July 2, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 15,360 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 10,388 acres, mapped by image interpretation. Point of origin as reported, 63.554, -141.769.
The record
- Reported final size
- 15,360 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,388 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 1997
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Tok Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKTAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-AKTAS-713468
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AK0369-97_13468
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image IDs: LT05_L2SP_064016_19980910_20200908_02_T1 and LT05_L2SP_066015_19970905_20200909_02_T1. Difficult to delineate east edge of fire.
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 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inowak Fire | 606,945 | Jun 25, 1997 | Natural |
| Simels Fire | 365,871 | Jun 7, 1997 | Natural |
| Magitchlie Creek Fire | 308,120 | Jun 10, 1997 | Natural |
| George River Fire | 101,820 | Jun 26, 1997 | Natural |
| Garfield Creek Fire | 76,300 | Jul 22, 1997 | Natural |
| Titnuk Creek Fire | 71,760 | Jun 24, 1997 | Natural |
| Many Lakes Fire | 47,300 | Jul 21, 1997 | Natural |
| West Fork Nixon Fire | 47,060 | Jul 5, 1997 | Natural |
| B 484 Fire | 44,050 | Jul 3, 1997 | Natural |
| Reindeer Fire | 37,900 | Jul 22, 1997 | Natural |
| Kokhila Hills Fire | 36,400 | Jun 8, 1997 | Natural |
| Roketaloi Fire | 35,490 | Jul 3, 1997 | 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. 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.