Crews battle wildfires raging across California, Alaska and Arizona JUNEAU, Alaska/PHOENIX - Wildfires raging in three West Coast states have forced more than 1,000 people to be evacuated from their ...

Hundreds of fires are burning across the state of Alaska, blackening nearly 5 million acres of thick forest and tundra. The fires are the result of an abnormally warm and dry June, followed by ...

Northern Alaska, long viewed as a frozen buffer against fire, is now breaking records that reach deep into prehistory. New research shows the 2023 wildfire season there was the most severe in at least ...

Almost 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen US states from Texas to Alaska. The McKinley Fire, which has now spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far ...

Alaska is perhaps better known for snow and ice than it is fire. But new research shows the Last Frontier has been hit by more wildfires over the last century than at any other time since the rule of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Wheeler Fire, burns about 33 miles northwest of Huslia on July 7, 2025. The fire was estimated at 3,000 acres at the time.

Earlier this summer, Interior Alaska wildfires were so widespread, Fairbanks resident Nettie La Belle-Hamer had to prepare a go-box in case the flames encroached too closely on her home. La ...

Ashes swallowed my hiking boots as I climbed a forested ridge north of Fairbanks. Blackened branches clawed at the sky — the ridge burned last year in the Grapefruit Complex fire — and the air still ...

Alaska’s spring season varies greatly across the state: from deep snow and below-zero temperatures in Fairbanks and Delta Junction, to clear skies and snowy forecasts in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and ...

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