West Fork Fire
The West Fork Fire burned 5,760 acres in Alaska, in 1998. It was discovered on June 30, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,760 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,872 acres. Point of origin as reported, 63.725, -142.440.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,760 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,872 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,632 acres
- Discovered
- June 30, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Tok Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKTAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1998-AKTAS-813304
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6371314242619980630
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AK0369-98_A304
- Perimeter map method
- Mixed Methods
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service and MTBS-Alaska data. Image ID: LT05_L2SP_064016_19980910_20200908_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 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 |
| STP001 Fire | 9,728 | Jan 1, 1998 | |
| Walker Fork Fire | 3,381 | Jun 3, 1998 | 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.