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Wildfire perimeter

Big Mud

Burned 44,540 acres (180 km², 69.6 mi²) in AK during 2016.

IRWIN {5A23FDED-F3CA-4… BLM AK fire history 2016 fires
Acres burned
44,540
180 km²
Year
2016
FIRE_YEAR field
State
AK
POOState region
Reporting agency
BLM
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 1 ring. Centroid 64.571°, -153.130°.

NW: 64.647°N, 153.367°W SE: 64.495°N, 152.893°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.