Alaska Fire Update 2017

There are are currently fires burning in Alaska. In total, acres have burned. The largest fire is , burning acres.

The most expensive fire is , estimated to cost $ .

This fire season, were started by lightning, were human caused. In total, fires have cost an estimated $.

This automated summary is based of data downloaded at .

For original data, visit the AICC website.

2017 Fire Locations

Largest Fires

Acres

Disclaimer: this is an experimental project by Ben Matheson using publically-available data from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center. The page checks for new data hourly, but for original data, visit the AICC website or Alaska Fire Info. For methedology and code, visit the github repo. It was built using R, Leaflet.