Nageethluk River Fire
The Nageethluk River Fire burned 52,540 acres in Alaska, in 2006. It was discovered on May 31, 2006, and contained on June 8, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 52,540 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2006
- Contained
- June 8, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 56,307 acres. Point of origin as reported, 62.276, -161.704.
The record
- Reported final size
- 52,540 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 56,307 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 57,315 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2006, 8:24 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 8, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Alaska Fire Service
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AKGAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-AKGAD-000140
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6222916164120060531
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-523484
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- None Recorded
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 |
| Coleen River Fire | 15,819 | Jun 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Grass River Fire | 14,880 | Jul 10, 2006 | Natural |
| Little Delta River Fire | 14,200 | May 15, 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.