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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.

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Fires within 100 mi
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Nearest fire (300 mi scan)
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Weather alerts
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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.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Anchorage, AK in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Municipality of Anchorage Office of Emergency Management, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Anchorage County; neighboring counties post notices through their own official channels. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 9 active fires within 300 miles of Anchorage, AK, including 4 within 100 miles. None are inside Anchorage city limits. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Anchorage, AK in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Garden monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 19).

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.

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Anchorage is in Anchorage BoroughLive feed

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Live evacuation feed coverage
3of 30 boroughs
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 27 boroughs without a feed will not appear on FireNearby. If you live in one, follow that borough's official emergency channels.

No live feed27
  • Aleutians East
  • Aleutians West
  • Bethel
  • Bristol Bay
  • Chugach
  • Copper River
  • Dillingham
  • Fairbanks North Star
  • Haines
  • Hoonah-Angoon
  • Juneau
  • Ketchikan Gateway
  • Kodiak Island
  • Kusilvak
  • Lake and Peninsula
  • Matanuska-Susitna
  • Nome
  • North Slope
  • Northwest Arctic
  • Petersburg
  • Prince of Wales-Hyder
  • Sitka
  • Skagway
  • Southeast Fairbanks
  • Wrangell
  • Yakutat
  • Yukon-Koyukuk
Live feed3
  • Anchorage
  • Denali
  • Kenai Peninsula
3 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • Kenai Peninsula Borough Office of Emergency Management
  • Municipality of Anchorage Office of Emergency Management
  • Denali Borough

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Fires by distance

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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.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

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. Ptarmigan Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N2GG)

    41 days ago · September 30, 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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