Gechiak Lake Fire
The Gechiak Lake Fire was reported on June 22, 2015 in Dillingham County, Alaska and burned 18,795 acres. It was declared out on July 31, 2015. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 18,795 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 22, 2015
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 59.258, -160.240.
The incident
- Size
- 18,795 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 22, 2015 at 12:14 PM AKDT
- Contained
- July 31, 2015 at 6:00 PM AKDT
- Controlled
- July 31, 2015 at 6:00 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- July 31, 2015 at 6:00 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Dillingham County
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- ANCSA
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $58
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-AKSWS-504510
- IRWIN identifier
- 390ED0A0-5970-4E3E-9645-F8F5A3887844
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. 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
- $58, in 2015 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Togiak, 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 September 14, 2022 at 3:32 AM AKDT. Identifier 2015-AKSWS-504510.
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.