Alaska 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. “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. A lightning strike in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in southwest Alaska, a region primarily made up of tundra, threatened two Alaska Native villages with about 700 total residents before firefighters put it out.
Alaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades an immense relief one year after fires scorched an area roughly equivalent to the state of Connecticut
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The Cedar Creek Fire burning on the Willamette and Deschutes national forests increased to 92,548 acres as of Tuesday from around 86,000 acres a day earlier.
The Cedar Creek Fire burning on the Willamette and Deschutes national forests increased to 92,548 acres as of Tuesday from around 86,000 acres a day earlier.