3:30 p.m. June 13, 2016 – The more than 150 wildland firefighters working to suppress the Warren Creek Fire burning in northwest Alaska received assistance from Mother Nature in the form of light rain Sunday night and Monday to help prevent… Read More ›
AK Fire Info
Warren Creek Fire shows minimal growth on Sunday; now approximately 3,500 acres
June 12, 2016 – A wildfire burning in a remote part of northwest Alaska has more than doubled in size but was still not posing a threat to any villages in the area. The Warren Creek Fire is now estimated… Read More ›
Warren Creek Fire now over 1,000 acres; still growing but moving to northwest
June 11, 2016 – The Warren Creek Fire burning in northwest Alaska continues to grow but the fire is now moving away from the villages of Kobuk and Shungnak. The fire was estimated at 1,174 acres as of late Friday… Read More ›
BLM AFS fighting fire near Kobuk
June, 10, 2016 — The BLM Alaska Fire Service is busy working on a fire north of Shungnak and Kobuk in the Northwest Arctic. The fire was reported at around 2:30 p.m. Friday and was burning roughly a mile west… Read More ›
Suppression efforts catch Mountain Village dump fire
June 9, 2016 – BLM Alaska Alaska Fire Service crews and water-dropping aircraft suppressed a fire yesterday that escaped from the Mountain Village dump Tuesday night. As many as 26 people have worked on the ground so far including smokejumpers and the Chena… Read More ›
BLM Issues Fire Prohibitions for Federal Lands near Gilmore Trail
June 8, 2016 – The Bureau of Land Management’s Eastern Interior Field Office has issued a Fire Prevention Order, effective at 12:01 a.m. today, prohibiting campfires, explosives and fireworks on federal lands in a fire-prone area of black spruce off Gilmore Trail north of Fairbanks. In… Read More ›
AFS Hotshots concentrate on protection of camp, Native allotments from fire in Western Alaska
June 6, 2016 – A fire burning in Western Alaska is now estimated at 3,200 acres as firefighting resources have settled in to protect a church camp and Native allotments about nine miles from the fire perimeter. After the fire… Read More ›
Smokejumpers, aided by water-dropping aircraft, catch fire burning toward Candle
June 6, 2016 – BLM Alaska Fire Service smokejumpers, aided by two water dropping airplanes, worked into the early morning hours to successfully catch a fire that was marching toward Candle Sunday night. Residents in Candle first reported the fire at… Read More ›
BLM Alaska Fire Service fights fire near Russian Mission
June 3, 2016 – The BLM Alaska Fire Service is busy battling a fire burning about 19 miles north of Russian Mission. There is a good amount of mountainous terrain between the fire and Russian Mission to keep the flames… Read More ›
Division of Forestry monitoring wildfire in Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge
June 3 – A small wildfire burning in a remote part of the the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge in Southwest Alaska is being monitored by the Alaska Division of Forestry with assistance from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service…. Read More ›
Alaska Wildland Fire Information 