Sischu 1 Fire
The Sischu 1 Fire burned 1,433 acres in Alaska, in 2010. It was discovered on May 28, 2010, and contained on July 16, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,433 acres
- Discovered
- May 28, 2010
- Contained
- July 16, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,192 acres, mapped by image interpretation. Point of origin as reported, 64.203, -152.637.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,433 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,192 acres
- Discovered
- May 28, 2010, 7:53 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 16, 2010, 2:33 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
- AKTAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-AKTAD-000256
- Fire occurrence record
- W-612098
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LT05_L2SP_071015_20100912_20200823_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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 10, from May 29, 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
- Dormant Brush, Hardwood Slash
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2010 | 650 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 | 1,320 | |
| Jun 10, 2010 | 1,320 | |
| Jun 17, 2010 | 1,433 | |
| Jun 24, 2010 | 1,433 | |
| Jul 1, 2010 | 1,433 | |
| Jul 7, 2010 | 1,433 | |
| Jul 15, 2010 | 1,433 | |
| Jul 16, 2010 | 1,433 | 0 |
| Dec 30, 2010 | 1,433 |
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. 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.