Smith Creek Fire
The Smith Creek Fire burned 78,172 acres in Alaska, in 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to June 28, 2005.
- Size
- 78,172 acres
- Ignition
- June 28, 2005
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 78,172 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 64.229, -140.892.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 78,172 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 14,013 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 28, 2005
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AKUYD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-AKUYD-000357
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6422914089220050628
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service.
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Mountain Fire | 244,600 | Jun 13, 2005 | Natural |
| Salmon Fork Fire | 236,702 | Jul 19, 2005 | Natural |
| Old Dummy Fire | 231,822 | Jun 16, 2005 | Natural |
| Holtnatkatna Creek Fire | 194,015 | Jul 25, 2005 | Natural |
| Little Mud 2 Fire | 193,400 | Jun 11, 2005 | Natural |
| Rabbit Mountain Fire | 191,444 | Jul 24, 2005 | Natural |
| North Bonanza Fire | 190,942 | Jun 16, 2005 | Natural |
| Chapman Creek Fire | 172,321 | May 30, 2005 | Natural |
| Beaver Creek Fire | 166,439 | Jun 20, 2005 | Natural |
| Kandik River Fire | 154,432 | Jun 11, 2005 | Natural |
| Coleen Mountain Fire | 131,913 | Jul 24, 2005 | Natural |
| Saddle Fire | 121,149 | Aug 2, 2005 | 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. 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.