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Wildfires in Alaska

Alaska, United States: 472 fires with a page have entered 14 of its 29 counties since 2016, burning 3,732,243 hectares inside the region. The largest was Chalkyitsik Complex in July 2019, with 200,138 hectares inside the region. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 1).

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

hectares burned
3,732,243ha
Since 2016
Of the region
2.2%
1,678,810 km²
fires
472
Since 2016
counties with fire
14
of 29
Largest fire
200,138ha
Chalkyitsik Complex · July 2019
Inhabitants
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Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI at the region centre, from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Fri 13 Very low 9° · 65 % · 66 km/h
  2. Sat 14 Very low 10° · 67 % · 82 km/h
  3. Sun 15 Very low 7° · 59 % · 61 km/h
  4. Mon 16 Very low 8° · 63 % · 66 km/h
  5. Tue 17 Very low 7° · 55 % · 55 km/h
  6. Wed 18 Very low 8° · 56 % · 72 km/h
  7. Thu 19 Very low 8° · 62 % · 73 km/h
  8. Fri 20 Very low 7° · 65 % · 56 km/h

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Hectares per year

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Which months burn

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Hectares burned inside the region by starting month, adding all years since 2016.

The counties that burned most

  1. Yukon-Koyukuk 2,271,162 ha · 5.9 %
  2. Bethel 303,389 ha · 2.7 %
  3. Southeast Fairbanks 186,789 ha · 2.9 %
  4. Denali 176,518 ha · 5.4 %
  5. Dillingham 166,906 ha · 3.4 %
  6. Kusilvak 166,279 ha · 3.5 %
  7. Fairbanks North Star 125,437 ha · 6.6 %
  8. Northwest Arctic 98,339 ha · 1.0 %
  9. Lake and Peninsula 76,986 ha · 1.1 %
  10. Kenai Peninsula 68,004 ha · 1.6 %
  11. Nome 60,695 ha · 1.0 %
  12. Valdez-Cordova 20,197 ha · 0.2 %

Counties that burn again and again

Counties with two or more fires of 400 ha or more since 2016.

Largest recorded fires

Hectares inside the region; the fire may have burned more outside it.

Year by year

Yearfireshectares burnedLargest of the year
20261531,516 Tatlanika 15,765 ha
202582403,463 Klikhtentotzna 50,008 ha
202422108,013 Midnight 21,293 ha
202321117,404 Delta 23,561 ha
2022991,269,308 Koktuli River 122,662 ha
202118102,971 Munson Creek 21,893 ha
20202071,246 Ingakslugwat Hills 27,566 ha
2019951,032,900 Chalkyitsik Complex 200,138 ha
201823158,086 Zitziana River 27,873 ha
201735249,569 Campbell River 41,107 ha
201642187,766 Hog 24,505 ha

All fires in Alaska · 472

Newest first. The figure is the area inside the region; if the fire burned more outside, the total is shown.

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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