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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

Kokwok River1,825 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 11, 2015
Wulik River1,745 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 5, 2015
Kalakaket Creek1,743 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 28, 2015
Melozitna1,728 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 24, 2015
Fork1,694 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 28, 2015
Rungun Creek1,682 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 23, 2015
Cape Espenbery1,594 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 23, 2015
Our1,564 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 12, 2015
John Reek Creek 31,543 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 10, 2015
Little Swift Creek1,536 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 3, 2015
Big Creek 31,397 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 24, 2015
Tagagawik River1,346 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 28, 2015
Stuart Inert 21,341 ac
2015 · perimeter dated May 9, 2015
Robinson Fork1,199 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 5, 2015
Chuilnuk River1,143 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 12, 2015
Nulato River 31,109 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 31, 2015
Anaconda Creek1,091 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 10, 2015
Gemuk River1,076 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 22, 2015
Little Montana Creek1,046 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 20, 2015
Basket Creek #21,036 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 8, 2015
Puk Palik Lake Junior1,009 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 3, 2015
Nulato River1,004 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 4, 2015
Whitefish Lake 21,001 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 16, 2015
Funny River196,610 ac
2014 · perimeter dated June 7, 2014
Oklahoma (Dta West)55,241 ac
2014 · perimeter dated May 21, 2014
100 Mile Creek23,270 ac
2014 · perimeter dated June 17, 2014
The Sisters2,622 ac
2014 · perimeter dated October 6, 2014
Sheep Creek2,110 ac
2014 · perimeter dated January 23, 2024
Tyonek1,906 ac
2014 · perimeter dated May 24, 2014
Lime Hills194,553 ac
2013 · perimeter dated January 29, 2024
Moore Creek134,712 ac
2013 · perimeter dated January 31, 2024
Stuart Creek 287,154 ac
2013 · perimeter dated August 19, 2013
Mississippi67,425 ac
2013 · perimeter dated December 11, 2013
Beaver Log Lakes64,416 ac
2013 · perimeter dated September 3, 2013
Prospect Creek64,079 ac
2013 · perimeter dated July 30, 2013
Sandless Lake55,303 ac
2013 · perimeter dated August 4, 2022
Sulatna River48,078 ac
2013 · perimeter dated September 3, 2013
Chisana River44,923 ac
2013 · perimeter dated August 4, 2022
Moving River34,176 ac
2013 · perimeter dated August 12, 2020
Toklat River East33,413 ac
2013 · perimeter dated August 4, 2022

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.