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Wildfire perimeter

Dry Creek

Burned 48,154 acres (195 km², 75.2 mi²) in AK during 2012.

IRWIN unkn-48000-588… BLM AK fire history 2012 fires
Acres burned
48,154
195 km²
Year
2012
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 64.566°, -147.340°.

NW: 64.670°N, 147.556°W SE: 64.462°N, 147.123°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.