As warming temperatures and reduced snowpack lead to drier conditions in Interior Alaska, fire managers increasingly need tools to forecast wildfire trends at seasonal and yearly intervals.

Robust gridded historical weather information is needed to develop and validate these forecasts; such data are currently not available for Alaska.

The AK CASC will work with the BLM Alaska Fire Service, NOAA, and the Alaska Department of Natural Resources to identify critical meteorological variables to assess and the needed spatial extent.