Big Duck Lake Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,551 acres. Point of origin as reported, 66.082, -142.351.

Reported final size

3,546 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

2,551 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

3,546 acres

Discovered

July 6, 2010, 5:45 p.m. local time

Contained

October 18, 2010, 12:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Natural

State

Alaska

Land ownership at origin

Fish and Wildlife Service

Reporting unit

Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

AKUYD

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2010-AKUYD-000595

MTBS fire identifier

AK6609614235020100706

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

FWS-2010AKYFRFJ68

Perimeter map method

GPS

Note on the perimeter

Flown by Pat O'Brien, digitized by rmmikol

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 17, from July 10, 2010 to December 30, 2010. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Primary fuel model reported

Short Grass (1 foot)

Suppression strategy reported

Confine

Acres reported by day

Every fire of 2010 Alaska fire history

• Fort Yukon, AK88 miles northwest of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.