Crater Creek Fire

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 67.125, -146.957.

Reported final size

1,634 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

945 acres

Discovered

August 4, 2013, 2:00 p.m. local time

Contained

September 5, 2013, 5:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Alaska

Land ownership at origin

Tribal

Reporting unit

Alaska Fire Service

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

AKUYD

Incident type

Wildfire

Unique fire identifier

2013-AKUYD-000661

Fire occurrence record

W-660059

Perimeter map method

Image Interpretation

Note on the perimeter

Fire perimeter modified using Landsat Image Service. Image ID: LC08_L2SP_070013_20140730_20200911_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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 14, from August 5, 2013 to August 18, 2013. 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.

Injuries

13

Most personnel assigned

121 on August 7, 2013

Cost reported by the teams

$1.8 million, in 2013 dollars

Cause on the reports

Human

Primary fuel model reported

Tall Grass (2.5 feet)

Suppression strategy reported

Full suppression

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 508 acres, on August 7, 2013.

Every fire of 2013 Alaska fire history

• Fort Yukon, AK60 miles southeast of the fire

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.