Dry Creek Fire
201249,010 acresAlaska
The Dry Creek Fire burned 49,010 acres, about 77 square miles, across Fairbanks North Star Borough. It began on June 23, 2012.
Watch how it happenedDry Creek Fire · 2012
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 | 49% | 23,998 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 24% | 11,539 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 14% | 6,641 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 14% | 6,812 |
49% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 23,998 acres; 73% 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.
| Fairbanks North Star Borough | AK | 49,047 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2012
- Uvgoon Creek 1 Fire53,671 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.