Dry Creek Fire
202153,267 acresAlaska
The Dry Creek Fire burned 53,267 acres, about 83 square miles, across Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area. It began on June 15, 2021.
Watch how it happenedDry Creek Fire · 2021
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 | 15% | 8,015 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 32% | 17,083 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 37% | 19,925 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 12% | 6,325 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.5% | 243 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 3.1% | 1,676 |
15% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 8,015 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.
| Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | AK | 53,288 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2021
- Munson Creek Fire54,072 acres
- Cultas Creek Fire42,173 acres
- Black Hills Fire28,339 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.