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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.

11
Fires within 100 mi
44 mi
Nearest fire
3
Weather alerts
44
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Fairbanks, AK

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest fire is 44 miles away.
There are currently 35 active fires within 300 miles of Fairbanks, AK, including 1 within 25 miles and 11 within 100 miles. None are inside Fairbanks city limits. The most significant is the Tatlanika fire, 44 miles away at 38,636 acres, 15% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Fairbanks, 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 NCore monitor is good (AQI 44).

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.

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
1
0 acres
≤ 50 mi
3
39K acres
≤ 100 mi
11
43K acres
≤ 200 mi
13
51K acres
≤ 300 mi
35
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

<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.

Active fires near Fairbanks, AK

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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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. 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 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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