Fire News

Denali National Park and Preserve plans to conduct prescribed burning of slash piles around the park entrance area between March 3 and May 1, 2025, dependent on weather and conditions on site.

On Monday, June 24th, Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve personnel working at Coal Creek Camp observed the Coal Creek Camp Mess Hall fully engulfed in fire.

You are invited to review and provide input on the Alaska Region Coastal Park Units Fire Management Plan Environmental Assessment by July 21, 2024.

Fire Management staff plans to burn piles of woody debris not suitable for firewood from Sunday, March 31, through Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The piles are located on NPS lands surrounding two allotments near Nation Bluff, below the confluence of the Nation and Yukon Rivers, approximately 53 miles downstream of Eagle along the Yukon River. Fire staff will ignite approximately 30 piles and monitor them over multiple days, until no heat remains. As this is a planned ignition, please do not report smoke from this prescribed burn as a wildfire.

Denali National Park and Preserve plans to conduct prescribed burning of slash piles near Mile 1–3 of the Denali Park Road between March 25, 2024, and April 8, 2024.

Fire Management staff at Denali National Park and Preserve will conduct a prescribed burn of the slash piles in the vicinity of the Denali Post Office near the entrance of the Park Road between October 11 and November 10, 2023.

The Clear Creek Fire was identified on August 5, 2023, and is 52,673 acres in size and currently in "monitor status." Approximately 1,000 acres of the fire are in the northern boundary of Denali National Park and Preserve along the Toklat River to the east and in some rocky ridges with low fuel to the west.

Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve Fire Management staff will be removing vegetation from the University Subdivision Fire Break June 12th through June 20th.

The Biederman Fire #458, discovered July 4, has been placed in monitor status and all firefighter resources demobilized. The fire will be included on periodic reconnaissance flights performed by the Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service, which is currently monitoring multiple other lightning-caused fires in the Upper Yukon Zone. The area has received several days of wetting rain and diminished fire weather conditions. Unless fire activity resumes, no further actions are anticipated.

With wetter and cooler weather moving into southcentral Alaska and moderating fire activity, Superintendent Ben Bobowski announced today that effective immediately, campfires are again permitted throughout Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.