The Taylor Complex Fire was a 2004
wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, bushfire, wildland fire or rural fire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire ...
in
Alaska
Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...
that consumed approximately of land.
National Interagency Fire Center
The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho is the physical facility which is the home to the National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC), and the National Multi-Agency Coordination group (NMAC or MAC).
The center works clo ...
, "Fire Information - Wildland Fire Statistics: 1997-2007 Large Fires (100,000+ fires)", at . Accessed on 1/20/2009. By acreage, it was the largest wildfire in the United States between 1997 and 2007.
The fire also was part of the record-breaking
2004 Alaska fire season
The 2004 Alaska fire season was the worst wildfire season on record in the U.S. state of Alaska in terms of area burned. Though the 1989 fire season recorded more fires, nearly 1,000, the 2004 season burned more than 6,600,000 acres (10,300 sq mi; ...
that burned more than , the most in recorded history.
References
Wildfires in Alaska
2004 wildfires in the United States
2004 in Alaska
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