STP001 Fire
The STP001 Fire burned 9,728 acres in Alaska, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to January 1, 1998.
- Size
- 9,728 acres
- Ignition
- January 1, 1998
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,728 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 63.717, -141.552.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,728 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- January 1, 1998
- State
- Alaska
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6371714155219980101
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- this fire has been renamed to add a date. It could not be determined when the fire started due to lack of available imagery.
Other large fires in Alaska in 19986
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carla Lake Fire | 53,720 | May 21, 1998 | Natural |
| STP001 Fire | 42,763 | Jan 1, 1998 | |
| Gardiner Creek Fire | 31,360 | Jul 2, 1998 | Natural |
| Slow Fork Fire | 21,800 | Jun 30, 1998 | Natural |
| West Fork Fire | 5,760 | Jun 30, 1998 | Natural |
| Walker Fork Fire | 3,381 | Jun 3, 1998 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
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.