Siruk Creek Fire
The Siruk Creek Fire was reported on June 26, 2016 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 1,832 acres. It was declared out on August 14, 2016. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 1,832 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 26, 2016
- Personnel
- 26
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 66.665, -153.121.
The incident
- Size
- 1,832 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 26, 2016 at 4:09 PM AKDT
- Contained
- July 11, 2016 at 10:00 PM AKDT
- Controlled
- July 11, 2016 at 10:00 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- August 14, 2016 at 2:36 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Nearest city reported
- Alatna
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Personnel assigned
- 26
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $219,103
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-AKTAD-000342
- IRWIN identifier
- 58F057C2-EDCD-4435-B789-8C483886508B
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from June 28, 2016 to July 19, 2016. 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
- 7
- Most personnel assigned
- 23 on June 29, 2016
- Cost reported by the teams
- $79,453, in 2016 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Point zone protection
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 332 acres, on June 29, 2016.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 28, 2016 | 1,500 | |
| Jun 29, 2016 | 1,832 | +332 |
| Jul 19, 2016 | 1,832 |
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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, 2016 at 2:48 PM AKDT. Identifier 2016-AKTAD-000342.
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.