Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have downgraded the state to Preparedness Level 4 (PL4) as of Saturday morning.

Nearly 400 firefighters are working to protect homes and infrastructure along the highway corridor between Nenana and ...

Nearly 2,000 fire personnel were working 28 staffed fires around the state as of Monday. Rainy weather in the Interior this ...

The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.

Still, in a state where good roads are sparse or nonexistent, crews could not reach some fire zones. The distance between Alaska’s westernmost and easternmost fires this summer was 1,800 miles ...

More than 530 wildfires have burned an area in Alaska that’s about the size of Connecticut. And the period that’s usually the worst of Alaskan fire season is still ahead.

Wildfires burning hundreds of miles away create smoky conditions Monday, June 13, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska's remarkable wildfire season includes over 530 blazes that have burned an area ...

Alaska's remarkable wildfire season includes over 530 blazes that have burned an area more than three times the size of Rhode Island, with nearly all the impacts, ...

Capital Weather Gang Extreme lightning sparks more Alaska wildfires in already historic season. More than 2.4 million acres have burned across the interior this year, among the most burned acreage ...

Alaska had its most severe wildfires in 2004, when 6.5 million acres burned. 2015 was Alaska’s second-most destructive year, with 5.1 million acres burned. More Must-Reads from TIME ...

America’s 2022 wildfire season is off to a relatively calm start, with one big exception: Alaska. Right now, the country overall sits above its 10-year average for annual acres burned, but more ...

In Alaska, a little more than half of all wildfires are started by lightning and the rest are caused by humans accidentally, intentionally or through negligence.