Bear Creek Fire
The Bear Creek Fire burned 50,897 acres in Alaska, in 2009. It was discovered on June 17, 2009, and contained on September 25, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 50,897 acres
- Discovered
- June 17, 2009
- Contained
- September 25, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 48,211 acres. Point of origin as reported, 64.029, -151.021.
The record
- Reported final size
- 50,897 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 48,211 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 50,897 acres
- Discovered
- June 17, 2009, 6:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 25, 2009, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Alaska Fire Service
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- AKTAD
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-AKTAD-000285
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6397715103220090617
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-594226
- Perimeter map method
- GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- The corrected perimeter from August 11 mapping mission flown with helicopter N58191.
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 200912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Railbelt Complex (Minto Flats South) Fire | 517,078 | Jun 21, 2009 | Natural |
| Little Black One Fire | 349,450 | Jun 20, 2009 | Natural |
| Big Creek Fire | 169,639 | Jul 18, 2009 | Natural |
| Titna River Fire | 164,542 | Jul 11, 2009 | Natural |
| Tonclonukna Creek Fire | 164,318 | May 23, 2009 | Natural |
| Zitziana Fire | 141,126 | Jun 17, 2009 | Natural |
| Nowitna Fire | 126,582 | Jun 13, 2009 | Natural |
| Wood River 1 Fire | 125,382 | Jul 12, 2009 | Natural |
| Railbelt Complex (Rex Creek) Fire | 101,150 | Aug 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Stevens Creek 1 Fire | 85,909 | Jun 18, 2009 | Natural |
| Sheenjek Fire | 62,658 | Jul 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Rock Slough Fire | 62,313 | Jun 30, 2009 | Natural |
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.