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Current National Statistics

8 Total

New Large Fires

68 Incidents

Large Fires Being Suppressed

2,482,887 Acres

Burned in Large Fires

Last Updated:

Friday, September 13, 2024 - 08:56

* Source for statistics is the Incident Management Situation Report published by the National Interagency Coordination Center.

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It's time for this week's #WildfireWeekInReview! One week ago, the National #PreparednessLevel moved back to a PL5 as multiple Geographic Areas were seeing significant wildland fire activity. Take a look at where our crews, teams, ... and support personnel were this past week. Thank you all for your unwavering dedication as we move through this #FireYear2024.

#NationalFireNews: September 13, 2024. 68 large active wildfires are currently being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide. Current fires have burned 2,482,877 acres. 26,330 wildland firefighters and support ... personnel are assigned to incidents, including 26 complex and 4 type 1 incident management teams, 548 crews, 1,762 engines, and 159 helicopters. 245 soldiers from the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment based out of Joint Base Lewis-McChord are deployed in support of wildland fire operations on the U.S. Forest Service - Boise National Forest. NIMO (Team 2) is assigned to support the military contingent. To learn more about military mobilizations, visit https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/military-support . 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photo 1 on the #WestFire, by E. Johnson. Photo 2 on the #LavaFire, photo from InciWeb. Photo 3 on the #AirportFire, photo from InciWeb.

We would like to extend a heartfelt “thank you” to our wildland fire partners from Australia and New Zealand. A contingent of more than 60 senior firefighters from these two countries just concluded a monthlong deployment to ... the U.S. to assist with the wildfires. These individuals stepped away from their own lives and journeyed across the globe when we requested their services. The contingent brought advanced firefighting qualifications and assumed vital roles on numerous large fires across Oregon and Washington. Their expertise and positive attitudes infused our own crews with energy as they worked alongside their international colleagues. We would especially like to thank our international liaisons, Alen Slijepcevic (Australia) and Brendon Grylls (New Zealand) for their outstanding work in helping our staff coordinate their assistance. The mutual fire assistance between the countries goes back several decades. This was the eighth time since 2000 that Australian and New Zealand firefighters have assisted in the U.S., the last time being in 2018. The U.S. has provided fire support to Australia five times, the last of which was from December of 2019 to April of 2020 when a series of devastating fires burned across Australia. Thank you all, safe travels home. AFAC News

Communication in wildland fire is the backbone of effective wildfire suppression operations. This $2.76 million award to create communication kits and on-site training to improve firefighter safety and wildfire operations is big ... for the entire wildland fire community!

We are #StrongerTogether. Be the voice that gives someone hope. You can find resources and steps to help someone in crisis at https://www.bethe1to.com/ . #SuicidePreventionMonth

#NationalFireNews: September 12, 2024. 67 large active wildfires are currently being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide. Current fires have burned 2,443,539 acres. 24,345 wildland firefighters and support ... personnel are assigned to incidents, including 24 complex and 5 type 1 incident management teams, 492 crews, 1,612 engines, and 141 helicopters. To date this #FireYear2024, there have been 36,511 wildfires reported nationally, for a total cumulative acreage of 7,034,277. This is a lower number of wildfires than the ten-year average for this date of 43,692, but a larger acreage than the average of 5,944,901. 🔥More NFN: https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn 📸Photo 1 on the #JohnsonFire, photo by Mike McMillan/USFS. Photo 2 on the #DiamondComplex, photo by Randy Pyle/USFS. Photo 3 on the #LineFire, from InciWeb. Photo 4 on the #LavaFire, photo from InciWeb.

Remote Automatic Weather Stations (RAWS) are crucial to wildland firefighting efforts. The RAWS group out of the NIFC works diligently to service, repair, and support field use of these units. Take a look at how they are helping ... wildland firefighters on the #WapitiFire in Idaho.

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The nation’s federal wildland fire community is a large and complex organization across the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service. These agencies manage wildland fire on nearly 700 million acres of federal public land, or one-fifth of the total land area in the United States.

NIFC is home to the national fire management programs of each federal fire agency, along with partners including the National Association of State Foresters, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Weather Service. A Department of Defense liaison was added as a permanent partner at NIFC in 2008. Working together, these partners provide leadership, policy oversight and coordination to manage the nation’s wildland fire programs.

In recent years, the role of the agencies at NIFC has grown to include all types of fire management, including hazardous fuels treatments, integrated fire and land-use planning, and more. Fire management under this larger umbrella is designed to achieve not only suppression goals, but to accomplish a broad spectrum of natural resource objectives, and do so in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

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