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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

Levelock9,345 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 24, 2019
Lockwood Hills8,873 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 12, 2019
Fuller Creek8,653 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 14, 2019
Little Titnuk8,516 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 26, 2019
Tony Slough8,190 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 10, 2019
Devil'S Elbow8,126 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 29, 2019
Garnet Creek7,818 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 30, 2019
Tom Cook Slough7,078 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 12, 2019
Kaluktavik River6,319 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 22, 2019
Peary Creek6,116 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 26, 2019
Pete Andrews Creek5,961 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 24, 2019
Lower Klutuk5,940 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 24, 2019
Three Castle5,877 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 25, 2019
Melozitna River5,473 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 30, 2019
Kuyukutuk River5,084 ac
2019 · perimeter dated June 28, 2019
Thazzik Mountain5,026 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Preacher Creek4,451 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 19, 2019
Little Kasigluk4,409 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 7, 2019
Swift Creek4,104 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 3, 2019
Horn Foothills3,865 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 3, 2019
Jump Peak3,538 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 28, 2019
Biederman Bluff3,513 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 9, 2019
Salmon Trout3,337 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Mckinley3,289 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 1, 2019
Door Mountains3,267 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 30, 2019
South Fork Buckland River3,238 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 4, 2019
Yukon Charley3,219 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 2, 2019
Nogadeneoda Lake3,058 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 19, 2019
Salmon Creek2,910 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 29, 2019
Mccally Creek2,879 ac
2019 · perimeter dated November 23, 2019
Buckland 32,855 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 15, 2019
Killak2,843 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 8, 2019
Bear Creek2,827 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 30, 2019
Offal Beach2,733 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 24, 2019
Blue Trout2,721 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 27, 2019
Kugruk River 12,707 ac
2019 · perimeter dated June 26, 2019
Trail Creek2,703 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 19, 2019
Coal River2,556 ac
2019 · perimeter dated August 20, 2019
Kateel River2,541 ac
2019 · perimeter dated July 11, 2019
Ongivinuk River2,540 ac
2019 · perimeter dated September 3, 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.