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

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

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a ...

Firefighters across the Final Frontier are working to contain dozens of blazes that have forced evacuations and occasionally ...

Last week, a 20-person crew of Massachusetts wildland firefighters was sent to assist in putting out significant wildfires in ...

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 ...

A mother moose apparently missing her babies took a stroll through the Anchorage Fire Department maintenance shop.

An extreme example of fire-induced thawing was the 2007 Anaktuvuk River Fire (ARF), which burned 250,000 acres of tundra in Alaska's northernmost region, the North Slope, at 70 degrees latitude.

The East Fork fire, which burned about 450 miles west of Anchorage, spread over more than 250,000 acres and forced Yup’ik villagers to evacuate, putting it among Alaska’s most destructive ...

Ryan McPherson / BLM Alaska Fire Service. August 24, 2022. Share. Save. America’s 2022 wildfire season is off to a relatively calm start, with one big exception: Alaska.

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.

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.