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Wildfires in Denali

Denali, United States, has had 22 fires with an official perimeter since 2018: 176,518 hectares burned inside the county, 5.4% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 0).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low -3° · 58 % · 72 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low -5° · 75 % · 47 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low -9° · 91 % · 10 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Very low -8° · 82 % · 10 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Very low -9° · 82 % · 25 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Very low -8° · 61 % · 26 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Very low -3° · 53 % · 27 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service. Put this widget on your website

Smoke today in Denali: hourly forecast

The county and its fires

Since 2016

176,518
hectares burned
5.4 %
of the county
22
fires
32,810
km²

How many times has Denali burned?

Denali has burned 22 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tatlanika Fire, June 2026, with 12,083 hectares inside the municipality.

  1.   16
  2.   17
  3. 2× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5.   20
  6.   21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 5× 23
  9. 5× 24
  10. 4× 25
  11. 2× 26
22
fires
7
years with fire
176,518
cumulative ha
21 Jun 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 400 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in United States

Fires that entered Denali

  1. 12,083 ha Tatlanika Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.4% of the county · 15,636 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 1,373 ha Bear Fire, 19 June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,380 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 5,460 ha Dry Creek Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.2% of the county · 5,369 ha in total · 17 days
  4. 1,007 ha Live Trap Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,013 ha in total · 3 days
  5. 12,975 ha Bear Creek Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.4% of the county · 12,784 ha in total · 17 days
  6. 19,188 ha Saint George Creek Fire, June 2025 where it started 0.6% of the county · 18,828 ha in total · 19 days
  7. 622 ha Sushana River Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 605 ha in total · 6 days
  8. 12,618 ha East Toklat Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.4% of the county · 12,489 ha in total · 30 days
  9. 15,495 ha Grizzly Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.5% of the county · 15,784 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 2,435 ha Foraker Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,464 ha in total · 8 days
  11. 1,122 ha Popovitch Creek Coal Seam Fire, May 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,045 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 13,910 ha Rock Creek Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.4% of the county · 13,691 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 2,741 ha Birch Creek Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,694 ha in total · 8 days
  14. 596 ha Bear Creek Fire, 28 July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 589 ha in total · 6 days
  15. 22,387 ha Clear Creek Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.7% of the county · 22,009 ha in total · 7 days
  16. 677 ha Teklanika River Fire, July 2023 0.0% of the county · 3,625 ha in total · 8 days
  17. 866 ha Bear Paw Fire, July 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,286 ha in total · 8 days
  18. 26,791 ha Clear Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.8% of the county · 29,537 ha in total · 19 days
  19. 19,359 ha Foraker Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.6% of the county · 19,489 ha in total · 28 days
  20. 2,696 ha Dry Creek Fire, June 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,650 ha in total · 20 days
  21. 1,089 ha Swift Fork Fire, June 2018 0.0% of the county · 7,173 ha in total · 2 days
  22. 1,029 ha Lynx Creek Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,008 ha in total · 6 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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