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Alaska Large Wildfire History

Since 1980, 1,662 wildfires of 1,000 acres or more have been mapped in Alaska, 106 of them above 100,000 acres. The largest burned 558,929 ac; together they cover about 44,755,353 ac.

Fires by decade

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Largest in Alaska

832015 · 1988558,929 acBoundary · 2004538,652 acMinto Flats South · 2009534,912 acDall City · 2004500,352 acInowak · 1997489,738 acBilly Creek · 2004462,173 acFyu Ne 85 · 1990433,768 acNorth Dag · 2004424,463 acPingo · 2004356,476 acLittle Black One · 2009349,451 ac

All mapped large fires

Frozen Calf237,494 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 11, 2019
Old Grouch Top223,694 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 23, 2019
Hess Creek182,908 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 3, 2019
Swan Lake167,182 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 17, 2019
Bearnose Hill130,960 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 10, 2019
North River111,898 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 5, 2019
Black River103,269 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 10, 2019
Little Mud River97,568 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 28, 2019
Tractor Trail 296,784 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 5, 2019
Hurst Creek84,866 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 23, 2019
Little Crazy Mountain78,132 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 4, 2019
Smith Creek64,850 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 26, 2019
Hadweenzic River60,633 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 11, 2019
Wilderness52,497 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Page Mountain51,455 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 5, 2019
Foraker49,528 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 30, 2019
Grouse Creek48,465 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 26, 2019
Bergman Creek40,671 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 30, 2019
Tettjajik Creek39,306 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 26, 2019
Mcarthur Creek38,955 ac
2019 · perimeter dated October 4, 2019
Oregon Lakes34,741 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 23, 2019
Lloyd Mountain34,328 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 28, 2019
Grayling Creek30,994 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Ethel Creek29,846 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 24, 2019
Louis Lake23,066 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 19, 2019
Marr23,040 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 4, 2019
Shovel Creek22,488 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 31, 2019
Sunshine Mountains21,850 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 14, 2019
Victoria Mountain20,923 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 4, 2019
Rainbow 218,453 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 29, 2019
Nugget Creek17,499 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 29, 2019
Boundary River14,913 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 10, 2019
Tokaina 213,928 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 25, 2019
Chandalar River13,122 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Beaver12,970 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 5, 2019
Dry Creek12,208 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 19, 2019
Hodatic River11,862 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 12, 2019
Snowshoe Creek10,312 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Kolmakof Hills10,002 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 3, 2019
Mauneluk River9,822 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 25, 2019

Source: National Interagency Fire Center, Interagency Fire Perimeter History. Only fires with a mapped perimeter of 1,000 acres or more appear; the state is inferred from the responsible unit code. A record of past fires is not a forecast. See About the Data.

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