Alaska wildfires aren’t heating up this year

It’s been a slow wildfire season so far. As of July 6, just over 200,000 acres have burned from 273 different fires. Which, according to Tim Mowry, spokesman for the State Division of Forestry, puts 2017 well below normal.
”In a typical season, we average about 1.2 million acres a year and about 500 fires,” Mowry said.
Mowry cautioned that at this time last year, even less acreage had burned, but then came an uptick in activity that boosted the total. While that could still hap