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National Preparedness Level 4

as of July 12 at 7:30 a.m. MDT (on a scale from 1 to 5)

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July 25, 2025

2 new large fires were reported since yesterday morning for a national total of 53. 13,720 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned, including 298 crews, 578 engines, and 113 helicopters. Some ebb and flow of activity at the national level throughout the fire year is not unusual, and the potential for new starts is always present. 

Fire danger remains high in northern and eastern Nevada, where a new fuels and fire behavior advisory warns of critically dry vegetation, including standing dead trees and drought-stressed live fuels, along with above average grass growth. That mix creates the potential for fast-moving fires. See all current fuels and fire behavior advisories here

Let’s work together to avoid adding to the statistics. Be sure to check local fire restrictions, secure trailer chains, and avoid driving or parking on dry grass. Put campfires completely out and never leave them unattended. As the National Fire Year Themes reminds us: It Takes All of Us to prevent wildfires.

It's the National Interagency Fire Center's 55th birthday! The idea for a unified "headquarters" representing the many agencies that play roles in managing wildland fire started with recognizing that fire does not respect jurisdictional boundaries, and we are most effective at fighting fire when we collaborate and share resources. Over the past five and half decades, the many professionals that have served the American people at NIFC have honed this model into the fine example of cooperation and performance that it is today. Here's to the next 55! 

Weather

An overall escalation in fire activity is expected today. Thunderstorm chances will increase substantially over parts of the West as a cut-off low pressure system offshore approaches California. A warming and drying trend will otherwise continue throughout the Intermountain West, while monsoonal thunderstorms will be most prolific along and east of the Divide from Wyoming to New Mexico. Heavy rain and a few severe storms will continue from the Central Plains to the Great Lakes, in addition to the coastal Southeast. Mixed wet/dry storms will quickly increase this afternoon from the Sierra into higher elevations across all of northern California and southern Oregon, extending into northern Nevada/Utah and southern Idaho. Slow storm motions will result in some locally heavy rain, but abundant lightning and erratic outflow winds can be expected, and storms will be drier with inland extent. Isolated dry thunderstorms may redevelop tonight in northern California, while isolated dry thunderstorms will be possible on the western fringes of monsoonal moisture to include western Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico this afternoon, as well. Areas of elevated fire weather are possible elsewhere in the Great Basin and Desert Southwest, where it will be locally breezy with humidity as low as 3-8% after poorer morning recoveries. Established large fires from southern Nevada into the Four Corners states are expected to respond to the drying fire environment, and holdovers from recent thunderstorm activity may emerge. In the Northwest, westerly Cascade gap winds will increase, gusting as high as 30-45 mph amid humidity as low as 15-25%. Significant impacts are possible to the Burdoin Fire in the Gorge as elevated to briefly critical fire weather returns. 

Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response 
* New fires are identified with an asterisk
2 States currently reporting large fires:
Total number of large fires 53
Acres from all active large fires 549,355
Fires contained 1
Year-to-date statistics
2025 (1/1/25-7/25/25) Fires: 39,169 Acres: 2,985,155
2024 (1/1/24-7/25/24) Fires: 20,693 Acres: 3,786,429
2023 (1/1/23-7/25/23) Fires: 29,118 Acres: 949,207
2022 (1/1/22-7/25/22) Fires: 38,402 Acres: 5,578,815
2021 (1/1/21-7/25/21) Fires: 36,476 Acres: 2,770,454
2020 (1/1/20-7/25/20) Fires: 30,316 Acres: 1,930,420
2019 (1/1/19-7/25/19) Fires: 24,809 Acres: 3,419,295
2018 (1/1/18-7/25/18) Fires: 34,193 Acres: 4,040,708
2017 (1/1/17-7/25/17) Fires: 36,516 Acres: 5,128,482
2016 (1/1/16-7/25/16) Fires: 32,228 Acres: 3,025,850
2015 (1/1/15-7/25/15) Fires: 43,894 Acres: 5,569,966
10-year average Year-to-Date
2015-2024 Fires: 32,686 Acres: 3,463,772
Current Wildfires
Fires: 27
Acres: 300,013
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Aggie Creek Fairbanks Area ST 35,146 5 23 Miles NW of Fairbanks, AK 907-921-7881
Anguitakada Alaska Fire Service - Galena Zone BLM 7,991 0    
Burnt Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 746 0 Started on FWS land 56 miles northeast of Venetie, AK  
Chabanika Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 3,504 0 Twenty-eight miles northwest of Allakaket, AK  
Chicken Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 7,723 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 12 miles southwest of Kallands, AK  
Christian Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 46,847 0 Started on FWS land 50 miles northeast of Venetie, AK  
Continental Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 800 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 40 miles northwest of Alatna, AK  
Elephant Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 8,941 79 Started on Alaska DNR land twenty miles south of Rampart, AK  
Himalaya Road Fairbanks Area ST 6,194 43 12 Miles NW of Fox, AK 907-921-7881
Hogatza Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 28,126 0    
Lush Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 26,544 71 Started on Alaska Native Corporation land one mile northwest of Rampart, AK  
Mauneluk Alaska Fire Service - Galena Zone BLM 2,786 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 30 miles northeast of Koyuk, AK  
McQuisten Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 816 0 Thirty-two miles northeast of Tanana, AK  
Moran Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 10,805 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 27 miles northwest of Tanana, AK  
Muskox Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 1,000 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 48 miles northwest of Alatna, AK  
Ninety-Eight Alaska Fire Service - Military Zone BLM 15,677 89 Started on DOD land 25 miles northeast of Salcha, AK  
Obrien Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 8,125 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 12 miles northwest of Fox, AK  
Polly Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 350 0 Twenty-one miles northeast of Chicken, AK  
Red Alaska Fire Service - Tanana Zone BLM 9,619 0 Twenty-three miles northeast of Hughes, AK  
Sand Lake Delta Area ST 6,322 0 Forty-four miles southeast of Delta Junction, AK  
Takoma Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 19,431 0 Started on Alaska, DNR land 26 miles west of Central, AK  
Thluichohnjik Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 147 0 Started on FWS land 47 miles southeast of Arctic Village, AK  
Timber Alaska Fire Service - Galena Zone BLM 703 0 land 20 miles southwest of Fairbanks, AK  
Twelve Mile Lake Delta Area ST 23,865 0 Thirty-seven miles southeast of Delta Junction, AK  
Ulaneak Alaska Fire Service - Galena Zone BLM 257 0 Started on Alaska DNR land 33 miles northeast of Kobuk, AK  
Wheeler Alaska Fire Service - Galena Zone BLM 26,698 0 Thirty miles north of Huslia, AK  
Yukon Fork Alaska Fire Service - Upper Yukon Zone BLM 850 0 Twenty-six miles southeast of Circle Hot Springs, AK  
Fires: 4
Acres: 79,002
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Billy Tonto National Forest USFS 2,124 30 15 miles south of Young, Arizona 928-218-4226
Cabin Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest USFS 1,048 75 Twenty-one miles northwest of Heber, AZ  
Dragon Bravo Grand Canyon National Park NPS 16,765 26 Grand Canyon North Rim, south of the Basin 928-268-5610
White Sage Arizona Strip Field Office BLM 59,065 64 Fifteen miles southeast of Fredonia, AZ  
Fires: 3
Acres: 38,525
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Fay Kern County Fire Department ST 648 93 Seven miles east of Kernville, CA  
Green Shasta-Trinity National Forest USFS 19,022 60 13 Miles East of Lakehead, CA (530) 378-4274
Orleans Complex Six Rivers National Forest USFS 18,855 10 10 miles east of Orleans, CA. 707-532-5747
Fires: 4
Acres: 22,067
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
South Rim Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park NPS 4,220 32 South rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, 9 miles east of Montrose, CO 970-773-5823
Turner Gulch Grand Junction Field Office BLM 16,851 41 8 Miles NE of Gateway, CO 970-852-6920
Ute 63 Ute Mountain Ute Agency BIA 530 95 Seven miles southwest of Red Mesa, CO  
Wright Draw Grand Junction Field Office BLM 466 89 8 miles northeast of Gateway, CO 970-852-6920
Fires: 1
Acres: 4,000
New: 1
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
* North Marsh Lake Woodruff National Wildlife Refuge FWS 4,000 80 Twenty miles east of Deland, FL  
Fires: 1
Acres: 1,268
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Gold Carson City District Office BLM 1,268 95 Sparks, NV  
Fires: 3
Acres: 44,122
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Goose Gila National Forest USFS 3,060 30 18 miles northwest of Silver City, NM 575-210-8624
Laguna Santa Fe National Forest USFS 16,934 55 Coyote Ranger District, Santa Fe National Forest 575-323-8964
Turkey Feather Gila National Forest USFS 24,128 35 Twenty-two miles southeast of Reserve, NM  
Fires: 4
Acres: 5,841
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Board Shanty Grants Pass Unit ST 469 20 One mile south of Grants Pass, OR  
Butte Creek Warm Springs Agency BIA 2,066 30 2 miles west of Simnasho, Oregon 541-216-7206
Elk Klamath Unit ST 2,637 95 7 miles SW of Beatty, Oregon 661-795-1330
Hagelstein Klamath Unit ST 669 75 14 miles north of Klamath Falls, Oregon 661-795-1330
Fires: 3
Acres: 43,376
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Deer Creek Southeast Area ST 17,648 77 1 Mile North of Old La Sal, UT 385.393.0516
Forsyth Dixie National Forest USFS 15,662 99 30 Miles N of St. George, UT (435) 280-2263
Monroe Canyon Fishlake National Forest USFS 10,066 9 3 miles east if Monroe Utah 435-280-2269
Fires: 3
Acres: 11,141
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Bear Gulch Olympic National Forest USFS 799 19 10 Miles NW of Hoodsport, WA 360-732-1813
Hope Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources ST 7,880 66 Approximately 15 Miles north of Kettle Falls, WA and 5 miles southwest of Northport, WA 509-219-9554
Lake Spokane Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources ST 2,462 16 12 Miles NW of Spokane, WA 509-402-5878
Fires: 0
Acres: 0
New: 1
Contained: 1
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
* PA Butte Campbell County CNTY 432 100