Hardpac Creek Fire
The Hardpac Creek Fire was reported on June 21, 2015 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 50,774 acres. It was declared out on August 30, 2015. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 50,774 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 21, 2015
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 66.868, -148.906.
The incident
- Size
- 50,774 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 21, 2015 at 8:02 PM AKDT
- Contained
- August 31, 2015 at 3:15 PM AKDT
- Controlled
- August 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- August 30, 2015 at 3:15 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Land ownership at origin
- USFWS
- Primary fuel
- Closed Timber Litter
- Estimated cost to date
- $5,289
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-AKUYD-000480
- IRWIN identifier
- ED597739-6BFD-4C89-99B1-4EBE368B852C
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 6, from June 26, 2015 to August 3, 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.
- Most personnel assigned
- 1 on June 26, 2015
- Cost reported by the teams
- $3,000, in 2015 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Closed Timber Litter
- 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 | 2,560 | |
| Jul 2, 2015 | 35,780 | |
| Jul 16, 2015 | 50,482 | |
| Jul 23, 2015 | 50,482 | |
| Aug 1, 2015 | 50,482 | |
| Aug 3, 2015 | 50,482 |
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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 24, 2015 at 1:39 PM AKDT. Identifier 2015-AKUYD-000480.
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.