After a slow start, Alaska wildfire season wraps up as unremarkable
The Delta Fire burns on July 30 in the Donnelly Training Area southeast of Fairbanks. (Lakota Burwell/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service...
The Delta Fire burns on July 30 in the Donnelly Training Area southeast of Fairbanks. (Lakota Burwell/Bureau of Land Management Alaska Fire Service) An Alaska wildfire season that wound up with an unexceptional amount of area burned took an unusual route to get there. After a record-slow start, the Alaska wildfire season tally as of Wednesday stood at 343 fires covering 297,747 acres, according to state wildfire managers. That is well below the recent years' median of about 1 million acres but within the usual range of the past two decades.