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Why Lake

Burned 42,767 acres (173 km², 66.8 mi²) in AK during 2015.

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Acres burned
42,767
173 km²
Year
2015
FIRE_YEAR field
State
AK
POOState region
Reporting agency
DVF
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 3 rings. Centroid 61.496°, -155.916°.

NW: 61.556°N, 156.171°W SE: 61.436°N, 155.661°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.