NOAA aids in response to a large tundra wildfire threatening Native communities in southwest Alaska

Smoke billows from the East Fork Fire on June 13, 2022. Credit: InciWeb

Over the weekend, a historically massive wildfire threatened four Yup'ik villages on the Yukon River in southwestern Alaska. Rick Thoman, a Principal Investigator with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy (ACCAP), a NOAA RISA team, has been working to update people from the Yukon River Delta region about the fire that is threatening their communities.

While the fire started when a bolt of lightning struck the tundra, the conditions that have allowed it to spread so rapidly were created by climate change.

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