Tumit Creek Fire
The Tumit Creek Fire was reported on June 5, 2020 in Northwest Arctic County, Alaska and burned 1,130 acres. It was declared out on June 16, 2020. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 1,130 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 5, 2020
Map
Perimeter mapped June 14, 2020 at 6:00 AM AKDT, 1,130 acres (image interpretation). Point of origin 68.259, -159.937.
The incident
- Size
- 1,130 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 5, 2020 at 12:13 PM AKDT
- Contained
- June 16, 2020 at 1:25 PM AKDT
- Controlled
- June 16, 2020 at 1:35 PM AKDT
- Declared out
- June 16, 2020 at 1:45 PM AKDT
- Cause
- Natural, Lightning
- Location
- 90 miles northeast of Noatak, AK
- County
- Northwest Arctic County
- State
- Alaska
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Jurisdiction
- NPS
- Land ownership at origin
- NPS
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-AKGAD-000186
- IRWIN identifier
- 252CDABA-E2DF-4FAA-8326-F6194AA1840F
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from June 5, 2020 to June 18, 2020. 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
- 2
- Cost reported by the teams
- $5,000, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 2020 | 414 | |
| Jun 11, 2020 | 1,130 | |
| Jun 18, 2020 | 1,130 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Noatak, 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 June 25, 2020 at 2:22 PM AKDT. Identifier 2020-AKGAD-000186.
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.