Tanana Area Fires Fire
The Tanana Area Fires Fire was reported on June 19, 2015 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 498,043 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 498,043 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 19, 2015
- Personnel
- 21
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 65.170, -152.066.
The incident
- Size
- 498,043 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 19, 2015 at 1:15 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Nearest city reported
- Tanana
- Personnel assigned
- 21
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $14,049,592
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-AKTAD-000898
- IRWIN identifier
- 4CABCF4D-B1A2-4013-8C75-FA061D07ADF9
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 41, from June 28, 2015 to August 8, 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
- 519
- Injuries
- 12
- Most personnel assigned
- 192 on July 6, 2015
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- People evacuated, at the most
- 62
- Cost reported by the teams
- $14 million, in 2015 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 67,301 acres, on July 8, 2015.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2015 | 180,529 | |
| Jun 29, 2015 | 183,640 | +3,111 |
| Jun 30, 2015 | 198,797 | +15,157 |
| Jul 1, 2015 | 211,697 | +12,900 |
| Jul 2, 2015 | 219,255 | +7,558 |
| Jul 3, 2015 | 235,783 | +16,528 |
| Jul 4, 2015 | 235,783 | 0 |
| Jul 5, 2015 | 290,985 | +55,202 |
| Jul 6, 2015 | 329,147 | +38,162 |
| Jul 7, 2015 | 334,584 | +5,437 |
| Jul 8, 2015 | 401,885 | +67,301 |
| Jul 9, 2015 | 453,815 | +51,930 |
| Jul 10, 2015 | 453,815 | 0 |
| Jul 11, 2015 | 453,815 | 0 |
| Jul 12, 2015 | 453,815 | 0 |
| Jul 13, 2015 | 468,483 | +14,668 |
| Jul 14, 2015 | 472,129 | +3,646 |
| Jul 15, 2015 | 478,731 | +6,602 |
| Jul 16, 2015 | 484,188 | +5,457 |
| Jul 17, 2015 | 484,948 | +760 |
| Jul 18, 2015 | 484,948 | 0 |
| Jul 19, 2015 | 484,948 | 0 |
| Jul 20, 2015 | 487,436 | +2,488 |
| Jul 21, 2015 | 488,547 | +1,111 |
| Jul 22, 2015 | 488,860 | +313 |
| Jul 23, 2015 | 489,174 | +314 |
| Jul 24, 2015 | 489,289 | +115 |
| Jul 25, 2015 | 489,673 | +384 |
| Jul 26, 2015 | 491,330 | +1,657 |
| Jul 27, 2015 | 491,366 | +36 |
| Jul 28, 2015 | 496,131 | +4,765 |
| Jul 29, 2015 | 496,131 | 0 |
| Jul 30, 2015 | 496,813 | +682 |
| Jul 31, 2015 | 497,265 | +452 |
| Aug 1, 2015 | 498,043 | +778 |
| Aug 2, 2015 | 498,043 | 0 |
| Aug 3, 2015 | 498,043 | 0 |
| Aug 4, 2015 | 498,043 | 0 |
| Aug 6, 2015 | 498,043 | |
| Aug 8, 2015 | 498,043 |
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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 August 14, 2015 at 11:04 PM AKDT. Identifier 2015-AKTAD-000898.
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.