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Wildfire perimeter

FYU NE 78

Burned 92,522 acres (374 km², 144.6 mi²) in AK during 1979.

IRWIN unkn-52000-308… AFS AK fire history 1979 fires
Acres burned
92,522
374 km²
Year
1979
FIRE_YEAR field
State
AK
POOState region
Reporting agency
AFS
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 1 ring. Centroid 67.313°, -143.562°.

NW: 67.427°N, 143.938°W SE: 67.200°N, 143.187°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.