Wildfires of 2007

Operation Burn Bolio

2007AlaskaPrescribed fire

The Operation Burn Bolio burned 14,837 acres in Alaska, in 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to May 20, 2007.

Size
14,837 acres
Ignition
May 20, 2007

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,837 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 63.945, -146.327.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
14,837 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
20,199 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
May 20, 2007
State
Alaska
Agency
AFS
Unit
AKMIL
Incident type
Prescribed fire
Unique fire identifier
2007-AKMIL-000A88
MTBS fire identifier
AK6393314632820070520
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
Digitized
Note on the perimeter
The perimeter was sketched from an aircraft and later digitized over a 1:63K DRG.

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. 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.