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Alaska Wildfires: Live Fire Map

32
Active fires
51K
Acres
6
Under 50% contained
29
Typical air quality · worst 62 near Floyd Dryden
Current situation

Alaska

Normal activity
Large fires (1K+)
3
New fires (48h)
0
Dispatch reports (24h)
2
NWS alerts
3
Alaska currently has 32 active wildfires burning a combined 50,617 acres. 3 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres, and 2 of those are still under 50% containment. The biggest is the Tatlanika fire in Denali County at 38,636 acres, 15% contained. Dispatch centers have logged 2 new fire reports in Alaska in the last 24 hours (2 smoke checks), typically minutes after the first 911 call.
The National Weather Service has 2 Wind Advisories and 1 High Wind Warning in effect covering parts of the state. Typical air quality across the state's 9 monitoring stations is good (AQI 29); the worst reading right now is AQI 62 (moderate) near Floyd Dryden.
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Bold outline: Alaska boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring states.

Evacuation status in Alaska

Alaska does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

3 active weather alerts
High Wind Warninguntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

High Wind Warning issued September 25 at 2:35PM AKDT until September 26 at 4:00PM AKDT by NWS Anchorage AK

Unalaska and Nikolski

See active alerts at weather.gov
Wind Advisoryuntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued September 25 at 12:49PM AKDT until September 27 at 4:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK

Northern Denali Borough

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Wind Advisoryuntil Sep 26, 3:00 PM

Wind Advisory issued September 25 at 12:49PM AKDT until September 27 at 7:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK

Eastern Alaska Range North of Trims Camp

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Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

9% of an average year
Burned so far in 202689K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)975K acres

So far in 2026, 89K acres have burned in Alaska, 9% of the 975K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires in Alaska

Latest fire updates in Alaska

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Pogo Fire · New perimeter mapped at 453 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  2. Louise Creek Coal Seam Fire · New perimeter mapped at 62 acres (national perimeter feed)

    3 days ago · September 22, 2026

  3. Starry Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    4 days ago · September 21, 2026

  4. Mukluk Fire · Containment rose to 70%

    14 days ago · September 12, 2026

  5. Mukluk Fire · New perimeter mapped at 7,339 acres (national perimeter feed)

    15 days ago · September 11, 2026

  6. Tatlanika Fire · Now mapped at 38,636 acres

    15 days ago · September 10, 2026

  7. Mukluk Fire · Containment rose to 45%

    17 days ago · September 9, 2026

  8. Mukluk Fire · Containment dropped to 22% (from 29%)

    24 days ago · September 2, 2026

  9. Tatlanika Fire · New perimeter mapped at 38,421 acres (national perimeter feed)

    33 days ago · August 24, 2026

  10. Mukluk Fire · Containment rose to 29%

    33 days ago · August 24, 2026

  11. Mukluk Fire · Containment rose to 22%

    35 days ago · August 22, 2026

  12. Mukluk Fire · Grew 443 acres in 23 hours to 7,287 acres

    35 days ago · August 22, 2026

Wildfire history in Alaska

All reported wildfires since 2014, NIFC interagency records.

2015
Worst year · 6.3M acres
472
Fires / year · average
6,130
Total fires · since 2014
Human & property impact, 1999-2020
636
Structures destroyed
0
Lives lost
$889.7M
Reported cost

From 1,241 fires with federal ICS-209 reports. Source: ICS-209-PLUS (St. Denis et al.).

Acres burned by year
6.3M
3.2M
'15
'20
'25
'26
Average acres burned by month · 2014–2025
1.1M
535K
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June and July account for 96% of the acreage burned in Alaska in an average year, based on NIFC interagency records.

Fires recorded by year
3887762014: 375 fires20142015: 776 fires2016: 590 fires20162017: 360 fires2018: 366 fires20182019: 720 fires2020: 349 fires20202021: 389 fires2022: 596 fires20222023: 346 fires2024: 379 fires20242025: 467 fires2026: 417 fires2026
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Alaska averaged 1.0M acres burned and 441 fires per year. That is 26% down in acreage and 10% down in fire count versus the 2014–2021 baseline. Recent seasons have been quieter than the long-term norm.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Alaska? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Largest fires on record in Alaska

  • Taylor Complex20049 structures destroyed1,305,592 acres
  • Railbelt Complex2009631,194 acres
  • Eagle Complex20042 structures destroyed614,974 acres
  • Boundary Fire200435 structures destroyed537,098 acres
  • Chalkyitsik Complex20192 structures destroyed505,273 acres

Fires near a city in Alaska

AnchorageFairbanksJuneau

Nearby states

California (200)Texas (114)Oregon (80)New Mexico (77)Oklahoma (64)Montana (59)