Rock Ck Fire
The Rock Ck Fire burned 1,120 acres in Alaska, in 2000. It was discovered on June 6, 2000. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 1,120 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 64.909, -146.331.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,120 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 788 acres
- Discovered
- June 6, 2000
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Fairbanks Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKFAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2000-AKFAS-011172
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AK0369-00_11172
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter modified from 2002 Landsat image P69 R14.
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 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zitziana Fire | 164,387 | Jun 13, 2000 | Natural |
| Bering Creek Fire | 141,497 | Jun 14, 2000 | Natural |
| Spirit Lake Fire | 97,271 | Jun 10, 2000 | Natural |
| Grand Creek Fire | 93,317 | Jun 27, 2000 | Natural |
| Yukon Creek Fire | 61,291 | Jun 25, 2000 | Natural |
| Bearpaw Mt Fire | 39,072 | Jun 24, 2000 | Natural |
| Tango Creek Fire | 28,906 | Jun 25, 2000 | Natural |
| Grant Creek Fire | 19,247 | Jun 13, 2000 | Natural |
| Foraker Fire | 17,956 | Jun 23, 2000 | Natural |
| Pastoliak River Fire | 12,891 | Dec 28, 2000 | Human |
| Dall River Fire | 12,864 | Jun 9, 2000 | Natural |
| Otter Creek Fire | 11,566 | Jun 24, 2000 | 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.