Little Delta Fire
200729,805 acresAlaska
The Little Delta Fire burned 29,805 acres, about 47 square miles, across 2 counties. It began on April 29, 2007.
Watch how it happenedLittle Delta 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 | 21% | 6,233 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 26% | 7,777 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 27% | 8,087 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 26% | 7,681 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 27 |
21% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 6,233 acres; 47% 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.
| Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | AK | 18,499 |
| Denali Borough | AK | 11,336 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2007
- Anaktuvuk River Fire250,129 acres
- Coffee Can Lake Fire41,713 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.