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Fires Near Fairbanks, AK

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

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Fairbanks, 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 8 active fires within 300 miles of Fairbanks, AK, including 1 within 100 miles. None are inside Fairbanks city limits. The most significant is the Bc002 fire, 299 miles away at 7,413 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Fairbanks, AK in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the NCore monitor is good (AQI 36).

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

No evacuation feed for this area

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Fairbanks is in Fairbanks North Star BoroughNo live feed

This borough does not publish evacuation zones to a feed we can monitor, so orders or warnings here will not appear on FireNearby. Follow the borough's official emergency channels.

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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7,415 acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 202611 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)11K acres

So far in 2026, 11 acres have burned within 25 miles of Fairbanks, <1% of the 11K 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 Fairbanks, AK

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Latest updates on fires near Fairbanks

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 Fairbanks

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Railbelt Complex
2009
631,194 acres · 53 mi away
Boundary Fire
2004
537,098 acres · 39 mi away
Central Complex
2004
451,162 acres · 99 mi away
Geskakmina Lake
2002
257,258 acres · 81 mi away
Hess Creek
2019
182,908 acres · 62 mi away
Camp Creek
2004
175,815 acres · 77 mi away

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