Starting June 21 and updated every Monday, fire points videos will be posted to keep track of Alaska’s fire season. Consistent with last year’s summary, each video shows a timelapse of the fire heat points detected by GINA over the course of the 2024 Alaska Fire Season. Recent fire points are displayed as bright red and fade to brown after a few days. Fire points frequently appearing in the same location indicate an actively burning wildfire. This product doesn’t detect points that are under cloud cover or thick smoke, and is used by the Alaska Fire Service for detecting active fires on the Alaska Wildland Fire Information Map.