Big Mountain Prescribed Fire
The Big Mountain Prescribed Fire burned 83,746 acres in Alaska, in 2010. It was discovered on June 2, 2010, and contained on August 27, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 83,746 acres
- Discovered
- June 2, 2010
- Contained
- August 27, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 81,838 acres. Point of origin as reported, 66.321, -141.755.
The record
- Reported final size
- 83,746 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 81,838 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 75,630 acres
- Discovered
- June 2, 2010, 5:52 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 27, 2010, 1:06 p.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
- AKUYD
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-AKUYD-000324
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6628814168420100602
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-614445
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LT05_L2SP_067013_20100815_20200824_02_T1.
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 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Toklat 2 Fire | 171,727 | May 16, 2010 | Natural |
| Turquoise Lake Fire | 91,885 | May 17, 2010 | Human |
| Pat Creek Fire | 72,692 | Jun 25, 2010 | Natural |
| Chitanatala Fire | 36,633 | May 26, 2010 | Natural |
| Canvasback Lake Fire | 35,456 | Jul 12, 2010 | Natural |
| Peavey Creek Fire | 30,239 | Jul 1, 2010 | Natural |
| Toklat 2 Fire | 27,817 | ||
| Derby Creek Fire | 23,577 | Jun 23, 2010 | Natural |
| Kaluktavik River Fire | 23,399 | Jul 2, 2010 | Natural |
| Delta Complex (Gilles Creek) Fire | 19,372 | May 26, 2010 | Natural |
| Mystery Fire | 18,952 | May 27, 2010 | Natural |
| Sidik Lake Fire | 18,189 | Jun 10, 2010 | Natural |
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.