Soda Creek Fire
The Soda Creek Fire was reported on June 21, 2015 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 16,944 acres. It was declared out on September 21, 2015. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 16,944 acres
- Contained
- 99%
- Discovered
- June 21, 2015
- Personnel
- 4
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 63.256, -154.084.
The incident
- Size
- 16,944 acres
- Containment
- 99%
- Discovered
- June 21, 2015 at 2:52 PM AKDT
- Contained
- September 21, 2015 at 11:06 AM AKDT
- Controlled
- September 21, 2015 at 11:06 AM AKDT
- Declared out
- September 21, 2015 at 11:06 AM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Jurisdiction
- DNR
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Personnel assigned
- 4
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Chaparral (6 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $101,053
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-AKSWS-504455
- IRWIN identifier
- DF71FDFF-9508-458C-AF1F-F49EA0E879B0
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 13, from June 26, 2015 to September 21, 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 structures threatened at once
- 2
- Most personnel assigned
- 4 on July 13, 2015
- Cost reported by the teams
- $101,053, in 2015 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- 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 | 6,704 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 | 6,704 | 0 |
| Jun 28, 2015 | 6,704 | 0 |
| Jul 13, 2015 | 14,203 | |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 14,203 | 0 |
| Jul 15, 2015 | 14,203 | 0 |
| Jul 19, 2015 | 16,205 | |
| Jul 22, 2015 | 16,944 | |
| Jul 30, 2015 | 16,944 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 | 16,944 | |
| Aug 14, 2015 | 16,944 | |
| Sep 21, 2015 | 16,944 |
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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-504455.
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.