Stuart Creek RX
The Stuart Creek RX burned 1,223 acres in Alaska, in 2011. MTBS dates its ignition to May 15, 2011.
- Size
- 1,223 acres
- Ignition
- May 15, 2011
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,223 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 64.713, -146.504.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,223 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,532 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 15, 2011
- State
- Alaska
- Agency
- AFS
- Unit
- AKMIL
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-AKMIL-000A07
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6470814651420110515
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- Flown by Tom St.Clair, 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 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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.