Parks Hwy Fire
2006125,198 acresAlaska
The Parks Hwy Fire burned 125,198 acres, about 196 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on June 7, 2006.
Watch how it happenedParks Hwy Fire · 2006
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 11% | 14,102 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 23% | 28,999 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 24% | 29,424 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 24% | 30,036 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.3% | 389 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 18% | 22,248 |
11% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 14,102 acres; 34% burned at moderate or high severity.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | AK | 125,115 |
| Denali Borough | AK | 160 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2006
- Nageethluk River Fire56,307 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.