Anaktuvuk River Fire
2007250,129 acresAlaska
The Anaktuvuk River Fire burned 250,129 acres, about 391 square miles, across North Slope Borough. It began on July 16, 2007.
Watch how it happenedAnaktuvuk River Fire · 2007
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 | 50% | 125,709 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 13% | 33,221 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 4.0% | 9,943 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 3.1% | 7,814 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 29% | 73,369 |
50% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 125,709 acres; 64% 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.
| North Slope Borough | AK | 250,286 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2007
- Coffee Can Lake Fire41,713 acres
- Little Delta Fire29,805 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.