Over three million acres have burned in wildfires across Alaska this summer, but recent rainfall has helped to hamper most of the major blazes burning within the state.
burning in Southwest Alaska started on June 15, and are also 56% contained according to the most recent post from Incident Commander Tyson Albrecht. there are 18 total fires — two of which are staffed and 14 that remain unstaffed.
“We continue to monitor unstaffed fires for growth and potential threats to identified values and are ready to respond if needed to protect values at risk.” Albrecht wrote. There are 865,620 acres that have burned in the 16 fires that make up the Lime Complex, and those fires span across an area covering 21 million acres. There are 115 personnel working the Lime Complex and an estimated containment date was listed as August 1.
“Things are looking really good out on the fires still. We’re receiving fair amounts of precipitation there which is really limiting our fire behavior and fire growth,” said Lime Complex Section Chief Erick Stahlin. Recent rainfall has limited fire activity and additional precipitation is expected in the area through the middle of the week. The two staffed fires are the Door Mountain Fire at 114,294 acres, and the Kuktuli River/Pike Creek Fire at 293,970 acres within the Lime Complex.
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