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Wildfire perimeter

Big Creek

Burned 169,639 acres (687 km², 265.1 mi²) in AK during 2009.

IRWIN unkn-48000-944… BLM AK fire history 2009 fires
Acres burned
169,639
687 km²
Year
2009
FIRE_YEAR field
State
AK
POOState region
Reporting agency
BLM
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 15 rings. Centroid 66.027°, -146.588°.

NW: 66.178°N, 147.088°W SE: 65.876°N, 146.087°W

About this perimeter

Sourced from the NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History ArcGIS service. Polygon geometry has been simplified to ≤0.001° tolerance for storage; original full-fidelity perimeters are at fire.nifc.gov. We track all 75,044 documented historical perimeters; this detail view renders the top 1,000 by acreage. The shape above is rendered fully server-side with no JavaScript or external mapping library — it preserves the polygon's shape but not its precise geographic placement on a basemap.