· This page presents a snapshot of Alaska fire losses reported through the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) in 2020. Also included is information about Alaska fire departments and firefighter and home fire fatalities in 2022. Fire departments …
Alaska National Fire Incident Reporting System (ANFIRS) The Alaska National Fire Inicident Reporting System (ANFIRS) objective is to help Alaska develop fire reporting and …
Wildfire is a natural process in Alaska, and more acres are burning as the climate warms. Alaska’s fire environment is vast, complex, and unique. Managing wildland fire in Alaska …
· Use this tool to compare the current year’s daily tally of acres burned to high fire years (> 1 million acres burned) since daily tally records began in 2004. See tallies of Alaska acreage burned daily statewide, by …
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is the state agency charged with providing functions relative to the protection of life, property, and wildlife resources. Department members …
Interactive real-time wildfire and forest fire map for Alaska. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters in Alaska using the Fire, Weather & Avalanche Center Wildfire Map. Terrain. …
· National Products. Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) - Alaska Large Fires. InciWeb - National Large Fires. National Wildfire Coordinating Group …
Alaska Wildfire Daily Tally Count, 2004-Present. These charts compare the current year's daily tally of acres burned to high fire years (> 1 million acres burned) since daily tally …
· Data from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. Circles represent the size, but not the shape, of the fire. ... Note: The fire display below represents real current …
· AICC operates on an interagency basis - cooperators include the Bureau of Land Management, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest …
In Alaska, lightning ignitions result in the vast majority of area burned. They appear random and widely distributed across a largely unoccupied landscape. The graph below from a 2017 study shows a nearly 5% per …
· July 25, 2022, at 12:07 a.m. Alaska Experiencing Wildfires It's Never Seen Before. FILE - This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire ...
· Alaska is on pace for another historic wildfire year, with its fastest start to the fire season on record. By mid-June 2022, over 1 million acres had burned. By early July, that number was well over 2 million acres, more than twice the size of a typical Alaska fire season.. The Conversation asked Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International …
· In this photo provided by Eric Kiehn of Alaska’s Northwest Incident Management Team 10, an airplane drops water on the Clear Fire near Anderson, Alaska, on July 6.
· Houston Fire Chief Tom Hood, right, visits with West Lakes Fire Chief John Fairchild Monday morning, June 13, 2016, at the Houston fire station. Hood lost his home in Meadow Lakes to a fire Friday ...
· Description. Fourteen existing published and unpublished fire history (or stand age) tree-ring datasets were compiled into the Alaska Fire History Database. For each of the plots in the database, fire dates, possible fire dates, and tree establishment dates were summarized (as applicable) for all the samples collected from the plot.
· The study began in the wake of the dramatic 2004 fire season in Alaska when an area seven times the long-term average burned. Historically, more than half of this forested terrain has been ...
· Interior Fire Chiefs Association CONFERENCE. Mon, September 26, 2022 @ 08:00 AM — Fri, September 30, 2022 @ 11:00 PM (AKDT) The Alaska Fire Conference is the annual fire conference co-sponsored by the Alaska Fire Chiefs and Alaska State Firefighters Associations in cooperation with the State of Alaska Fire Marshals Office.
· The Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service (AFS) provides wildland fire operations and suppression on Department of the Interior and Native lands in Alaska and provides oversight of the BLM Alaska aviation program while sustaining the health, diversity, and productivity of public land for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations.
· The Alaska Fire Portal provides information about fire science and technology relevant to Alaska. Our goal is to provide "one-stop shopping" for resource managers, decision makers, scientists, students, and communities who want access to the results of efforts to understand and manage fire and fuels on lands in Alaska. Content may also be …
In Alaska, lightning ignitions result in the vast majority of area burned. They appear random and widely distributed across a largely unoccupied landscape. The graph below from a 2017 study shows a nearly 5% per …
· On July 4 alone, 20 new fires ignited. Alaska fire experts say the season has had an incredibly quick start, with fires driven by a severe drought, hot temperatures and an abundance of lightning ...
· July 25, 2022, at 12:07 a.m. Alaska Experiencing Wildfires It's Never Seen Before. FILE - This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire ...
· Further, our economic analyses indicate that increasing fire suppression expenditures in boreal Alaska would decrease fire size and emissions. Between 2007 and 2015, increasing expenditures by 1%, on average, reduced fire size in boreal Alaska by 0.21%, regardless of an ignition’s proximity to a road.
· FILE - This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. 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 ...
· Houston Fire Chief Tom Hood, right, visits with West Lakes Fire Chief John Fairchild Monday morning, June 13, 2016, at the Houston fire station. Hood lost his home in Meadow Lakes to a fire Friday ...
· From April 1, 1909, through March of 1910, there were 65 fires, entailing a loss of $5,486 inn Fairbanks and an additional loss of $15,025 in the Garden Island area. These fires required the laying of 44,150 feet of fire hose that year. The previous year had 59 alarms with a total fire loss of $6,281, which resulted in the laying of 34,500 feet ...
Fire frequency and severity are primary determinants of vegetative succession trajectories and, subsequently, the rates of carbon loss and sequestration in boreal ecosystems. Fire regimes and fire impacts have been observed on fine spatial scales at point locations in Alaska, but the collective impacts of wildfire on vegetation, carbon ...
· Use this tool to compare the current year’s daily tally of acres burned to high fire years (> 1 million acres burned) since daily tally records began in 2004. See tallies of Alaska acreage burned daily statewide, by …
· Each year, fires cause devastating personal injury and property loss throughout our state; and. WHEREAS, in 2020, there were 861 residential structures fires reported in Alaska, resulting in 16 civilian deaths, 26 civilian injuries, one firefighter death, 24 firefighter injuries, and $31,760,675 in property loss; and ... Fire Prevention Month ...
· Alaska is burning this year in ways rarely or ever seen. So far this year more than 530 wildfires have burned an area the size of Connecticut and the typically worst of the fire season lays ahead.
· The National Interagency Fire Center anticipates a reduction of fire potential in the late summer and fall across the state. The expected rainfall and cooler weather will likely keep Alaska from surprising the 2004 fire season that was responsible for burning more than 6,600,000 acres, the worst in the state’s history.
· FILE - This aerial photo provided by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service shows a tundra fire burning near the community of St. Mary's, Alaska, on June 10, 2022. 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 ...
· Further, our economic analyses indicate that increasing fire suppression expenditures in boreal Alaska would decrease fire size and emissions. Between 2007 and 2015, increasing expenditures by 1%, on average, reduced fire size in boreal Alaska by 0.21%, regardless of an ignition’s proximity to a road.
Fire frequency and severity are primary determinants of vegetative succession trajectories and, subsequently, the rates of carbon loss and sequestration in boreal ecosystems. Fire regimes and fire impacts have been observed on fine spatial scales at point locations in Alaska, but the collective impacts of wildfire on vegetation, carbon ...
· From April 1, 1909, through March of 1910, there were 65 fires, entailing a loss of $5,486 inn Fairbanks and an additional loss of $15,025 in the Garden Island area. These fires required the laying of 44,150 feet of fire hose that year. The previous year had 59 alarms with a total fire loss of $6,281, which resulted in the laying of 34,500 feet ...
· The BLM Alaska Fire Service was created in 1982 to lead its statewide fire and aviation programs, provide fuels management direction, conduct and support fire ecology research, and assist with fire planning …
· July 25, 2022, 6:26 PM · 2 min read. A fire near St. Mary's, Alaska. Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP. More than 530 wildfires have been reported in Alaska so far this fire season, burning an area the size of Connecticut, and the worst is likely to come. One death has been linked to the fires; a …
· AICC operates on an interagency basis - cooperators include the Bureau of Land Management, State of Alaska Department of Natural Resources, USDA Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of …
· The total amount lost in 2011 comes to $14.9 billion. These losses can be divided into two categories: Direct property damage: When a home or business is damaged or destroyed in a fire, the losses resulting directly from the flames are known as direct property damage. The total losses in this category totaled $13.3 billion in 2011.