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Fires Near Anchorage, AK

Live wildfire tracking around Anchorage: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

5
Fires within 100 mi
55 mi
Nearest fire
3
Weather alerts
21
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Anchorage, AK

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.
There are currently 23 active fires within 300 miles of Anchorage, AK, including 5 within 100 miles. None are inside Anchorage city limits. The most significant is the Grandview fire, 55 miles away at 89 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Anchorage, AK in the past 12 hours.
The National Weather Service has 2 Wind Advisories and 1 High Wind Warning in effect covering the surrounding area. Air quality measured at the Garden monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 21).

House pin: Anchorage, AK. Bold outline: Anchorage city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation status

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

Fires by distance

City limits
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
0
no fires
≤ 50 mi
3
0 acres
≤ 100 mi
5
89 acres
≤ 200 mi
10
156 acres
≤ 300 mi
23
51K acres
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

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 7:00AM AKDT by NWS Fairbanks AK

Eastern Alaska Range North of Trims Camp

See active alerts at weather.gov

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

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This season vs the last decade

7% of an average year
Burned so far in 20267 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)106 acres

So far in 2026, 7 acres have burned within 25 miles of Anchorage, 7% of the 106 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Anchorage, AK

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Anchorage

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

Historic fires near Anchorage

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Funny River
2014
196,610 acres · 65 mi away
Swan Lake
2019
167,183 acres · 45 mi away

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