Kugruk River 1 Fire
The Kugruk River 1 Fire was reported on June 19, 2019 in Northwest Arctic County, Alaska and burned 2,707 acres. It was declared out on August 4, 2019. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,707 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 19, 2019
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 65.795, -162.311.
The incident
- Size
- 2,707 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- June 19, 2019 at 3:55 PM AKDT
- Contained
- August 4, 2019 at 2:24 PM AKDT
- Controlled
- August 4, 2019 at 3:24 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- August 4, 2019 at 4:24 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 12 miles southeast of Deering, AK
- County
- Northwest Arctic County
- State
- Alaska
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- DVF
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $15,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-AKGAD-000270
- IRWIN identifier
- 09D6F255-3758-41CF-ADC0-8CA3BADB0B77
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. 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 2019 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Kotzebue, AK covers the area today.
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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, 2019 at 2:21 PM AKDT. Identifier 2019-AKGAD-000270.
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.