Kiliovilik River Fire
The Kiliovilik River Fire burned 1,516 acres in Alaska, in 2011. It was discovered on June 11, 2011, and contained on June 17, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,516 acres
- Discovered
- June 11, 2011
- Contained
- June 17, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,477 acres, mapped by image interpretation. Point of origin as reported, 66.633, -157.721.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,516 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,477 acres
- Discovered
- June 11, 2011, 9:33 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 17, 2011, 8:04 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
- AKGAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-AKGAD-000344
- Fire occurrence record
- W-620639
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LE07_L2SP_077013_20110629_20200910_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: 3, from June 16, 2011 to June 19, 2011. 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.
- Cost reported by the teams
- $5,509, in 2011 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 516 acres, on June 19, 2011.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2011 | 500 | |
| Jun 18, 2011 | 1,000 | |
| Jun 19, 2011 | 1,516 | +516 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Volkmar Fire | 54,217 | May 26, 2011 | Natural |
| Dish Mountain Fire | 38,510 | May 27, 2011 | Natural |
| Fish River Fire | 31,600 | May 26, 2011 | Natural |
| Little Creek Fire | 26,201 | May 29, 2011 | Natural |
| Coal Creek Fire | 24,849 | May 21, 2011 | Natural |
| Kitalitna Fire | 24,525 | May 25, 2011 | Natural |
| Hastings Fire | 23,123 | May 30, 2011 | Human |
| Lloyd Fire | 8,818 | May 31, 2011 | Natural |
| Bonnifield #1 Fire | 8,593 | Jul 9, 2011 | Natural |
| McCord Creek Fire | 7,717 | May 29, 2011 | Natural |
| Hochandochtla Mountain Fire | 7,086 | May 25, 2011 | Natural |
| Tatalina River Fire | 3,268 | May 30, 2011 | 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. 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.