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Wildfire perimeter

Boulder Creek

Burned 40,906 acres (166 km², 63.9 mi²) in AK during 2017.

IRWIN {DC5D8B8C-8437-4… BLM AK fire history 2017 fires
Acres burned
40,906
166 km²
Year
2017
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 67.469°, -143.763°.

NW: 67.558°N, 144.068°W SE: 67.381°N, 143.458°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.