Allen Fire (AK)
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🟢 green = vegetation
🟤 red/brown = burned
🟠 orange = active fire
Imagery: Sentinel-2 (Copernicus). Drag to compare smoke vs. infrared.
Heat detections: NASA FIRMS (last 48h).
Quick facts
- Location
- 47 Miles W from Wiseman, AK
- Cause
- Natural
- Complexity
- Type 5 Incident
- Fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Behavior
- Active, Single Tree Torching, Flanking
- Jurisdiction
- DNR · State land
Spanning 1,691 acres after 20 days of activity, the Allen Fire in Yukon-Koyukuk, Alaska, is currently expanding at an average rate of approximately 85 acres per day. Located 47 miles west of Wiseman, the blaze remains uncontained and continues to exhibit active behavior, characterized by flanking and single-tree torching within two-foot brush.
Managed as a Type 5 incident by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, the fire was ignited by natural causes on June 26. The state-owned land remains under active monitoring as crews address the ongoing threat posed by the persistent growth of the incident.
In context
This wildfire burned in Alaska for 46 days. In total it burned about 1,691 acres — around 6.8 km².
In the Northern Hemisphere, wildfire activity usually peaks during the warm, dry months — roughly May through October.
The bigger picture in United States
Across United States, roughly 3,005,648 hectares have burned so far in 2026 — 45% below the two-decade average. Data from Copernicus GWIS.
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