Alaska wildfire history. Fires that have not been updated in more than a week are shown with grey markers. As alaskas climate changes the role of wildfire appears to be changing as well. A 2015 wildfire burns in the boreal forest of central alaska.
Wildfire has a long history in alaskas ecology as a rare agent in the temperate southern forests and as a common force of ecological change and renewal in subarctic interior forests. Dial 711 or 800 770 8973. Starting as early as monday the blm alaska fire service north star fire crew will burn piles of woody debris created to reduce the risk of wildfire on military training lands near eielson air force base.
As the arctic warms permafrost thaws and the boreal forest migrates alaska. Circles represent the size but not the shape of the fire. State of alaska department of natural resources.
National interagency fire center arcgis online. Individual fire perimeters separate. A recent study by tyler hoecker and philip higuera reconstructs fire history in a nearby boreal forest landscape and suggests that fire.
Geopdf repository separate page alaskafirehistory. The fire display below represents real current conditions. Alaska known sites db login on nifc agol aicc geopdf map products.
Data from the alaska interagency coordination center.