Chisana River Fire
The Chisana River Fire burned 46,638 acres in Alaska, in 2013. It was discovered on May 31, 2013, and contained on October 23, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 46,638 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2013
- Contained
- October 23, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 44,365 acres. Point of origin as reported, 62.510, -141.414.
The record
- Reported final size
- 46,638 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 44,365 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 44,923 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 2013, 9:34 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 23, 2013, 8:57 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
- Agency
- DVF
- Unit
- AKTER
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-AKTAS-000145
- MTBS fire identifier
- AK6251014141420130531
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-665091
- Perimeter map method
- Image Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter modified from 2013 Landsat 8 image acquired 9/12/2013.
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 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lime Hills Fire | 201,808 | May 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Moore Creek Fire | 157,747 | May 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Stuart Creek #2 Fire | 87,154 | Jun 19, 2013 | Human |
| Mississippi Fire | 67,338 | May 30, 2013 | Human |
| Beaver Log Lakes Fire | 64,416 | Jun 22, 2013 | Natural |
| Prospect Creek Fire | 64,078 | Jun 20, 2013 | Natural |
| Sandless Lake Fire | 62,318 | Jun 25, 2013 | Natural |
| Sulatna River Fire | 48,188 | Jun 21, 2013 | Natural |
| Moving River Fire | 34,176 | Jun 22, 2013 | Natural |
| Toklat River East Fire | 33,279 | Jun 26, 2013 | Natural |
| Doestock Creek Fire | 29,099 | May 30, 2013 | Natural |
| Little Mud Fire | 25,974 | Jun 24, 2013 | 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.