Derby Creek Fire
The Derby Creek Fire was reported on June 20, 2015 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 10,481 acres. It was declared out on August 23, 2015. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 10,481 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 20, 2015
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 65.817, -158.767.
The incident
- Size
- 10,481 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 20, 2015 at 9:17 AM AKDT
- Contained
- August 23, 2015 at 3:25 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- August 23, 2015 at 3:25 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Limited Suppression Management
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-AKGAD-000374
- IRWIN identifier
- B62F8EC5-6AB1-4C96-AFD7-EFA0AEB424CF
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from June 26, 2015 to July 25, 2015. 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.
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2015 | 2,000 | |
| Jul 2, 2015 | 7,600 | |
| Jul 9, 2015 | 8,492 | |
| Jul 25, 2015 | 8,492 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Selawik, AK covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated December 15, 2015 at 12:15 PM AKST. Identifier 2015-AKGAD-000374.
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.