State officials revealed on Tuesday that a total of 95 wildfires are burning in Alaska.

The Anchorage Daily News has reported that nearly 1,500 firefighters were working 13 of the blazes while the others were burning unchecked. The situation was called "unprecedented" by state wildfire officials.

Pete Buist, spokesman for the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center, told the Daily News, "We are now the national priority, which is good because that helps us in terms of getting resources, both people and equipment."

The forestry division said that warm, dry weather has raised the fire danger to the very high to extreme range throughout south-central Alaska.

276 wildfires have burned an estimated 353,000 acres statewide this year, the Daily News further said.

The Toklat Fire, about 25 miles southwest of Nenana, had burned 127,176 acres, while an out-of-control blaze near McGrath, dubbed the Turquoise Lake fire, had blackened about 56,000 acres in a remote area where several cabins were destroyed and more were threatened.

The newspaper also said that the Eagle Trail Fire, which had burned 13,200 acres within a half-mile of Tanacross, was being fought by 500 firefighters and was about 15 percent contained.

The Gilles Creek Fire about 20 miles north of Delta Junction had consumed 16,400 acres.

Fire officials further said that a possibly human-caused wildfire at Eklutna Lake in Chugach State Park had grown from 300 acres to 1,300.

According to the officials, smoke was visible in Anchorage Monday, most likely from the Eklutna fire and other blazes. (With Inputs from Agencies)