White Mountain Creek Fire
The White Mountain Creek Fire was reported on June 11, 2018 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 29,714 acres. It was declared out on September 4, 2018. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 29,714 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 11, 2018
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 63.678, -154.034.
The incident
- Size
- 29,714 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 11, 2018 at 6:15 PM AKDT
- Contained
- September 4, 2018 at 3:10 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- September 4, 2018 at 3:10 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural, Lightning
- Location
- 45 miles northeast of Medfra, AK
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Jurisdiction
- BLM
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2018-AKTAD-000235
- IRWIN identifier
- 8167ECB4-61A5-40F3-9771-60B03E0D8DD4
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 12, from June 24, 2018 to September 10, 2018. 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
- $15,000, in 2018 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 24, 2018 | 5,217 | |
| Jun 28, 2018 | 5,450 | |
| Jul 5, 2018 | 5,632 | |
| Jul 12, 2018 | 5,873 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 | 5,873 | |
| Jul 26, 2018 | 7,811 | |
| Aug 2, 2018 | 23,311 | |
| Aug 9, 2018 | 23,311 | |
| Aug 16, 2018 | 23,311 | |
| Aug 30, 2018 | 29,714 | |
| Sep 4, 2018 | 29,714 | |
| Sep 10, 2018 | 29,714 |
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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 October 4, 2018 at 12:15 PM AKDT. Identifier 2018-AKTAD-000235.
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.