Alaska Fire Season 2019 Presentation
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Alaska Fire Numbers 2019
Transcript of Alaska Fire Season 2019 Presentation
Alaska Fire Numbers2019
Alaska Fire Service
249 Fires
1,692,754 Acres
Division of Forestry
423 Fires
897,122 Acres
US Forest Service
46 Fires
14 Acres
719 Fires
2,589,893 Acres
124
114
8579
72
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4034
2821
1612
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Fires
Fire Start Timeline – Apr 1st-Sept 15th
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2004 2005 2015 2019
Fires
701 719768624
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Acres
2004 2005 2015 2019
Acres
6,590,140 4,663,819 5,111,452 2,589,893
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Acres Fires
Seasonal Progression
PL Level Timeline
May 30
PL 2
June 18
PL 3
June 22
PL 4
July 8
PL 5
July 26PL 4
July 30PL 3
Aug 3PL 2
Aug 18PL 3
Sept 7PL 2
2004 2005 2015 2019
PL Level
40 Days – PL3
19 Days – PL4
9 Days – PL5
19 Days – PL3
0 Days – PL4
0 Days – PL5
12 Days – PL3
7 Days – PL4
24 Days – PL5
8 Days – PL3
20 Days – PL4
16 Days – PL5
2004 2005 2015 2019
Staffed Fires
140 155147151
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Staffed Fire Days
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-Au
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-Au
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4-S
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-Se
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-Se
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Fire Starts and Smokejumpers Committed
SMKJ Committed Fire Starts
Aviation Assets
Fixed-Wing
•Jumpship – 7
• Air Tactical - 17
•Air Tankers – 7
•Scoopers – 12
•Utility - 12
Rotor-Wing
•Type 1 Helicopter – 9
•Type 2 Helicopter - 31
•Type 3 Helicopter - 18
Incident Management Team Timeline
May 4
AK T2 Team Assigned
May 17
1st L-48 T2 Team Assigned
June 25
1st L-48 T3 Team Assigned
September 23
Last L-48 Team Released
2004 2005 2015 2019
Incident Management Teams
19 13136
Crew Timeline
April 27
1st AK Crew Assigned
May 13
All AK IHCs Committed
May 17
1st AK T2 Crew
Assigned
June 19
1st Jet Load L-48 Crews
Arrived
August 13
Last L-48 Crew
Released of 1st Wave
August 19
2nd Wave L-48 Crews
Arrived
September 12
Last L-48 Crew Released of 2nd
Wave
September 24
Last AK Crew Released
2004 2005 2015 2019
Crews
119 1491535536% L-48 81% L-4866% L-4827% L-48
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Type 1 Crews
31 443620
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Type 2IA Crews
12 74530
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AK Type 2 EFF Crews
61 163959145
Assignments
100Assignments
118Assignments
47Assignments
2004 2005 2015 2019
Max Smokejumpers Committed
85July 12
138July 12
96June 23
87July 1
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SMKJ Committed SMJK Available
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Modified Conversion Dates
July 10SW AK only
July 29
July 10 July 17 July 18
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Disclaimer:
The numbers represented are a moment in time and subject to change. All fires and acres are current as of 12/31/2019.
Reported perimeter acreage was used as authoritative over user entered acres in the event of a discrepancy.
Resource data gathered from ROSS reports.
Smokejumper Commitment/Availability from TTY messages.
Data for 2004, 2005, and 2015 are from previous Annual Reports and associated files.
Acres are rounded where applicable for simplicity sake. Fore more “exact” numbers, see corresponding handout.
