Rock Creek Fire
202333,831 acresAlaska
The Rock Creek Fire burned 33,831 acres, about 53 square miles, across Denali Borough. It began on July 28, 2023.
Watch how it happenedRock Creek Fire · 2023
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 | 8.4% | 2,844 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 47% | 15,753 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 29% | 9,781 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 14% | 4,734 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 22 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 2.1% | 697 |
8% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 2,844 acres; 55% 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 | 33,844 |
Other large fires in Alaska in 2023
- Delta Fire57,928 acres
- Clear Creek Fire54,386 acres
- Pogo Mine Road Fire51,191 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.