Little Delta River Fire
The Little Delta River Fire burned 14,200 acres in Alaska, in 2006. It was discovered on May 15, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 14,200 acres
- Discovered
- May 15, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,155 acres. Point of origin as reported, 64.117, -146.800.
The record
- Reported final size
- 14,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 14,155 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 14,095 acres
- Discovered
- May 15, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Fairbanks Area
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKFAS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AKFAS-000049
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6411514688520060515
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AK01550606-0044
- Perimeter map method
- Not Recorded
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter provided by Alaska DNR Delta Area
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 200610
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Parks Hwy Fire | 118,520 | Jun 7, 2006 | Human |
| Nageethluk River Fire | 52,540 | May 31, 2006 | Natural |
| Coleen River Fire | 15,819 | Jun 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Grass River Fire | 14,880 | Jul 10, 2006 | Natural |
| Dennison Fire | 13,200 | Jun 18, 2006 | Natural |
| Koness River Fire | 9,725 | Jun 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Takslesluk North Fire | 4,017 | Jul 7, 2006 | Natural |
| North Horn Fire | 2,730 | Jul 6, 2006 | Natural |
| Fairplay Fire | 2,095 | Jul 11, 2006 | Natural |
| Meshik River Fire | 1,310 | May 22, 2006 | Human |
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.