Wildfires of 2007

Little Delta Fire

2007AlaskaWildfire

The Little Delta Fire burned 33,452 acres in Alaska, in 2007. It was discovered on April 29, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
33,452 acres
Discovered
April 29, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 29,805 acres. Point of origin as reported, 64.133, -146.817.

The record

Reported final size
33,452 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
29,805 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
31,563 acres
Discovered
April 29, 2007
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Alaska
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Fairbanks Area
Agency
DVF
Unit
AKFAS
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2007-AKFAS-000048
MTBS fire identifier
AK6416114695620070429
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
SFO-AK0291-00491
Perimeter map method
GPS
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 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Anaktuvuk River Fire256,734Jul 16, 2007Natural
Caribou Hills Fire56,254Jun 19, 2007Human
Coffee Can Lake Fire43,705Jul 5, 2007Natural
Woodchopper 2 Wfu Fire22,011Jun 6, 2007Natural
Mooseheart Fire21,508May 23, 2007Natural
Coleen Fire20,937Jul 9, 2007Natural
Ladue Fire19,246
Hodzana River Fire18,050May 22, 2007Natural
Little Big Creek Fire17,717Jul 8, 2007Natural
Runt Creek Fire9,807Jul 9, 2007Natural
Su River Fire8,494Jun 20, 2007Natural
Jordan Creek Fire8,404Jun 30, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 Alaska fire history

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.