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Wildfire perimeter

CEM E 55

Burned 37,833 acres (153 km², 59.1 mi²) in AK during 1991.

IRWIN unkn-50000-479… BLM AK fire history 1991 fires
Acres burned
37,833
153 km²
Year
1991
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 65.841°, -146.844°.

NW: 65.895°N, 147.110°W SE: 65.788°N, 146.579°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.