Three Sleep Fire
The Three Sleep Fire burned 10,602 acres in Alaska, in 2010. It was discovered on July 9, 2010, and contained on October 18, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,602 acres
- Discovered
- July 9, 2010
- Contained
- October 18, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,322 acres. Point of origin as reported, 66.075, -147.896.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,602 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,322 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,602 acres
- Discovered
- July 9, 2010, 6:00 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-000614
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6606514805920100709
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2010AKYFRFKRS
- Perimeter map method
- GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- Flown by Steve Theisen, 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.
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 |
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.