A flurry of lightning strikes in late July kickstarted an otherwise quiet fire season, according to the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection.
Since July 24, about 42,000 lightning strikes spread across Alaska’s Interior, while about 47,000 additional acres burned across the state. As of Tuesday morning, there were 133 active fires still burning statewide, according to Lily Coyle, public information officer for the ADF&FP.“It looks like a sustained high-pressure system is coming in so things are currently heating up in the Interior,” Coyle said.
“Prior to last week, we were sitting at one of the lowest recorded acres burned in Alaska’s history — if not the lowest — so this is still, in terms of the state’s history, a relatively small acreage year,” Coyle said. “We’ll see what activity transpires over the next couple weeks with this hot, dry weather coming in.”
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