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Wildfire perimeter

BIG W 17 (ST-313001)

Burned 33,534 acres (136 km², 52.4 mi²) in AK during 1983.

IRWIN unkn-52000-226… DVF AK fire history 1983 fires
Acres burned
33,534
136 km²
Year
1983
FIRE_YEAR field
State
AK
POOState region
Reporting agency
DVF
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 1 ring. Centroid 63.938°, -146.413°.

NW: 64.024°N, 146.549°W SE: 63.852°N, 146.277°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.