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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

Dagislakhna9,751 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 25, 2015
Melogitna9,593 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 6, 2015
Little Mud River9,527 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 29, 2015
Khotol9,453 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 18, 2015
Kuka Creek 19,406 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 22, 2015
Rock Creek9,178 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 8, 2015
Card Street8,875 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 5, 2015
Selawik River8,867 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 1, 2015
Maybe Creek8,681 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 17, 2015
Innoko River8,661 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 28, 2015
Kobe8,515 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 25, 2015
Ungalik8,290 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 29, 2015
Sischu8,236 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 16, 2015
Crazy Slough8,020 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 10, 2015
Klikitarik7,680 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 6, 2015
Yukon Creek 27,563 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 18, 2015
Fish Creek7,464 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 20, 2015
Jackson7,377 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 22, 2015
Sockeye7,265 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 5, 2015
Lonestar6,941 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 13, 2015
Wrench Lake6,771 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 28, 2015
Coffee Creek6,760 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 22, 2015
Christian River #36,660 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 19, 2015
Kaiyuh6,501 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 21, 2015
Chahalie Lake6,246 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 11, 2015
White Lake6,135 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 18, 2015
Iditarod River #26,110 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 23, 2015
Nikolai Slough5,802 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 21, 2015
Fox Creek5,798 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 21, 2015
Bear Creek5,647 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 4, 2022
Igokluk Slough5,645 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 12, 2015
Wrongtrail5,609 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 19, 2015
Shaktoolik5,459 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 29, 2015
Golsovia #35,432 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 6, 2015
Willow Creek5,184 ac
2015 · perimeter dated September 1, 2015
Copenhagen Creek5,167 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 6, 2015
Quinn Creek4,947 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 23, 2015
Nulato River 24,904 ac
2015 · perimeter dated August 4, 2015
Little Moose4,897 ac
2015 · perimeter dated July 30, 2015
Twin Creeks4,862 ac
2015 · perimeter dated September 11, 2015

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.