Wildfires of 2007

Noyuk Fire

2007AlaskaWildland fire use

The Noyuk Fire burned 2,762 acres in Alaska, in 2007. It was discovered on July 5, 2007, and contained on July 17, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,762 acres
Discovered
July 5, 2007
Contained
July 17, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,001 acres. Point of origin as reported, 61.400, -162.920.

The record

Reported final size
2,762 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,001 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,763 acres
Discovered
July 5, 2007, 9:00 a.m. local time
Contained
July 17, 2007, 12:15 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Alaska
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
DVF
Unit
AKSWS
Incident type
Wildland fire use
Unique fire identifier
2007-AKSWS-000431
MTBS fire identifier
AK6138716289620070705
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2007AKYDRDNP1
Perimeter map method
Not Recorded
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
Little Delta Fire33,452Apr 29, 2007Human
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

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.