Grouse Creek Fire
The Grouse Creek Fire was reported on July 10, 2019 in Yukon-Koyukuk County, Alaska and burned 48,465 acres. It was declared out on October 15, 2019. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 48,465 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 10, 2019
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 65.624, -150.033.
The incident
- Size
- 48,465 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 10, 2019 at 6:05 PM AKDT
- Contained
- October 15, 2019 at 10:00 AM AKDT
- Controlled
- October 15, 2019 at 10:10 AM AKDT
- Declared out
- October 15, 2019 at 10:20 AM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 9 miles NE of Rampart, AK.
- County
- Yukon-Koyukuk County
- State
- Alaska
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- ANC
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $2,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-AKTAD-000485
- IRWIN identifier
- 43B78DBD-2F5E-487C-959B-688DC04997AC
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 30, from July 11, 2019 to August 22, 2019. 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
- 61
- Most personnel assigned
- 68 on July 16, 2019
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $2 million, in 2019 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Point zone protection
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 18,845 acres, on July 28, 2019.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 11, 2019 | 2,000 | |
| Jul 12, 2019 | 2,000 | 0 |
| Jul 13, 2019 | 2,000 | 0 |
| Jul 14, 2019 | 2,000 | 0 |
| Jul 15, 2019 | 4,963 | +2,963 |
| Jul 16, 2019 | 4,963 | 0 |
| Jul 17, 2019 | 4,963 | 0 |
| Jul 18, 2019 | 14,000 | +9,037 |
| Jul 19, 2019 | 15,000 | +1,000 |
| Jul 20, 2019 | 15,500 | +500 |
| Jul 21, 2019 | 17,500 | +2,000 |
| Jul 22, 2019 | 22,000 | +4,500 |
| Jul 23, 2019 | 25,000 | +3,000 |
| Jul 24, 2019 | 30,276 | +5,276 |
| Jul 25, 2019 | 30,276 | 0 |
| Jul 26, 2019 | 30,276 | 0 |
| Jul 27, 2019 | 30,276 | 0 |
| Jul 28, 2019 | 49,121 | +18,845 |
| Jul 29, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Jul 31, 2019 | 49,121 | |
| Aug 1, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 2, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 3, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 4, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 5, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 6, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 7, 2019 | 49,121 | 0 |
| Aug 22, 2019 | 49,533 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Ester, AK covers the area today.
Nearby
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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 November 26, 2019 at 1:55 PM AKST. Identifier 2019-AKTAD-000485.
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.