“If you were to kind of draw up a recipe for what would be a benign fire season in Alaska, we really have really checked all those boxes just this summer so far,” said Brian Brettschneider, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service.
Thanks to a cool, wet summer, wildfires so far this year have burned just 1½ times the size of New York’s Central Park. (Ryan McPherson/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service via AP, File)Īlaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades - an immense relief one year after fires scorched nearly enough land to cover Connecticut and even threatened remote Alaska Native communities on the tundra.
A year after wildfires in Alaska burned an area the size of Connecticut, Alaska in 2023 was off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades.
