Foraker Fire
201948,159 acresAlaska
The Foraker Fire burned 48,159 acres, about 75 square miles, across Denali Borough. It began on June 26, 2019.
Watch how it happenedForaker Fire · 2019
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 | 9.5% | 4,575 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 33% | 16,122 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 48% | 23,039 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 7.4% | 3,580 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.2% | 90 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 1.6% | 753 |
9% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 4,575 acres; 43% 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.
| Denali Borough | AK | 48,196 |
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Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.