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National Preparedness Level 4

as of October 4 at 7:30 a.m. MDT (on a scale from 1 to 5)

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October 4, 2024

This morning the National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group at NIFC has moved to National Preparedness Level    4. This increase is due to significant wildland fire activity once again increasing in multiple Geographic Areas. Hurricane Helene all hazard-incident response is also substantial and will increase in the coming days and weeks. The National Interagency Coordination Center Predictive Services forecast highlights the possibility for serious fire weather conditions through at least mid-October for much of the country. The potential for significant incidents to emerge in multiple Geographic Areas indicates that resource demands will continue or increase. 

Right now, 28 large active wildfires are being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide. These wildfires have burned 1,034,892 acres. Nearly 10,500 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 14 complex incident management teams, 184 crews, 518 engines, and 81 helicopters. 

Weather

A strong, dry cold front will move through the Northwest during the day and into the northern Rockies, northern Great Basin, and northern California overnight. Strong west to southwesterly winds of 20-40 mph with gusts 35- 60 mph will develop amid relative humidity of 8-25% from southeast Oregon and northeast California through the northern/central Great Basin into southern Montana and western Wyoming. The strongest winds are expected across the northern Great Basin. Overnight, strong downslope westerly winds will develop with the passage of the cold front near and east of the Divide in Montana and Wyoming into the western Dakotas with gusts up to 70 mph possible. Poor overnight humidity recovery of 20-40% is expected in the northern Great Basin into the western Dakotas, as well. Widespread elevated to critical conditions are expected with the winds. Farther south, hot temperatures up to 110oF will continue across the lower elevations of California into the Southwest and southern Great Basin with minimum humidity of 5-15% and poor overnight recovery below 30% for mid-slopes and ridges. Mild and very dry conditions will continue in the Upper Great Lakes with minimum relative humidity as low as 20%, but winds will be light overall. Farther south and east, isolated showers are expected in the Appalachians to the Northeast with scattered thunderstorms along the Gulf Coast. Most of the rain in the West will be west of the Cascades in northwest Oregon and western Washington, although scattered showers will occur in the Idaho Panhandle overnight. 

Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response 
* New fires are identified with an asterisk
5 States currently reporting large fires:
Total number of active large fires
Total does not include individual fires within complexes.
28
Acres from active fires 1,034,892
Fires contained 1
Year-to-date statistics
2024 (1/1/24-10/04/24) Fires: 39,284 Acres: 7,463,130
2023 (1/1/23-10/04/23) Fires: 45,591 Acres: 2,478,550
2022 (1/1/22-10/04/22) Fires: 54,683 Acres: 6,928,540
2021 (1/1/21-10/04/21) Fires: 46,542 Acres: 6,396,813
2020 (1/1/20-10/04/20) Fires: 44,714 Acres: 7,818,340
2019 (1/1/19-10/04/19) Fires: 41,403 Acres: 7,387,943
2018 (1/1/18-10/04/18) Fires: 47,853 Acres: 7,741,080
2017 (1/1/17-10/04/17) Fires: 50,173 Acres: 8,439,000
2016 (1/1/16-10/04/16) Fires: 45,904 Acres: 4,808,665
2015 (1/1/15-10/04/15) Fires: 50,417 Acres: 9,096,950
2014 (1/1/14-10/04/14) Fires: 41,463 Acres: 3,063,100
10-year average Year-to-Date
2014-2023 Fires: 46,748 Acres: 6,052,888
Current Wildfires
Fires: 1
Acres: 15,074
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
West Tonto National Forest USFS 15,074 80 13 miles north-northwest of Payson, Arizona 928-291-7354
Fires: 5
Acres: 122,755
New: 2
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Airport Orange County Fire Authority ST 23,526 97 Trabuco Canyon (949) 384-8736
Bridge Angeles National Forest USFS 54,878 98 East Fork of San Gabriel Canyon, 6 miles NE of Glendora, CA; Sheep Mountain Wilderness, San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (626) 662-0120
* Felicia Ventura County Fire Department ST 301 14 Five miles north of Piru, CA  
Line San Bernardino National Forest USFS 43,925 79 North of City of Highland, CA. 909-220-4292
* Peak Stanislaus National Forest USFS 125 10 Stanislaus National Forest 209.916.5919
Fires: 12
Acres: 365,861
New: 2
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Black Eagle Salmon-Challis National Forest USFS 7,936 16 21 miles west of Salmon 208-867-2734
* Commissary Caribou-Targhee National Forest USFS 1,718 0 Fourteen miles south of Swan Valley, ID  
Frog Sawtooth National Forest USFS 3,114 77 Little Boulder Creek off the East Fork of the Salmon River. (22 miles east/southeast of Stanley, Idaho) 208-593-7132
Goat Boise National Forest USFS 28,037 41 8 miles SE of Cascade, Idaho 208-462-0345
Lava Boise National Forest USFS 97,573 88 12 miles SW of Cascade, ID 208-780-5003
Logan Payette National Forest USFS 379 30 West of Edwardsburg, Krassel Ranger District, Payette National Forest 208-634-0820
Middle Fork Complex Boise National Forest USFS 61,490 90 7 miles east of Garden Valley, ID 208-992-3045
* Mowitch Salmon-Challis National Forest USFS 332 0 Approximately three (3) miles north of Indian Creek on the MIddle Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. 208-756-7853
Red Rock Salmon-Challis National Forest USFS 3,576 78 15 miles west of Salmon, ID 208-867-2734
Rosie Southwest Supervisory Area Office ST 2,513 0    
Snag Boise National Forest USFS 33,435 90 9.5 miles east of Cascade, Idaho 208-462-0345
Wapiti Boise National Forest USFS 125,758 78 10 miles west of Stanley, ID 208-593-7132
Fires: 2
Acres: 7,643
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Daly Bitterroot National Forest USFS 7,328 0 Railroad Creek/ Skalkaho Creek confluence, 26 miles SE of Hamilton 406-499-2997
Sheep Creek Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest USFS 315 0 5 miles southwest of Bernice, MT 406-865-0941
Fires: 0
Acres: 0
New: 1
Contained: 1
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
* Stateline Standing Rock Agency BIA 2,081 100    
Fires: 9
Acres: 232,016
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Bachelor Complex Deschutes National Forest USFS 11,950 55 Mt Bachelor, 20 miles SW Bend, OR (541) 383-5300
Bingham Willamette National Forest USFS 183 0 Bingham Ridge; 2 miles east of Marion Forks; 10 miles south east of Idanha 503-854-3366
Bottom Creek Coos Forest Protective Association ST 205 73 Twenty-one miles east of Coos Bay, OR  
Diamond Complex Umpqua National Forest USFS 11,142 90 18 miles southwest of Chemult, Oregon 541-208-7100
Homestead Complex Umpqua National Forest USFS 10,282 35 Thirty miles northeast of Glide Oregon 541-208-7100
Rail Ridge Prineville District BLM 167,866 89 Less than 1 mile south of Dayville, OR 541-208-7111
Red Deschutes National Forest USFS 2,500 11 Diamond Peak Wilderness, 16 miles west, north-west of Crescent Oregon. 541-208-1766
Tiger Creek Umatilla National Forest USFS 398 5    
Willamette Complex Willamette National Forest USFS 27,490 54 Willamette Complex South fires are 8 miles north and 8 to 22 miles S-SE of Oakridge. 541-225-6305
Fires: 1
Acres: 2,593
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Yellow Lake Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest USFS 2,593 22 10 miles South East of Francis Utah (801) 784-0542
Fires: 2
Acres: 2,738
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Goosmus Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources ST 1,738 80 ~5 miles north of Curlew, WA along Hwy 21 5098086720
Jack Wells Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources ST 1,000 0 Two miles east of Bridgeport, WA  
Fires: 3
Acres: 95,456
New: 0
Contained: 0
Fire Unit Agency Size % Ctn Location Information
Elk Bighorn National Forest USFS 50,361 0 Bighorn National Forest 307-303-7642
Fish Creek Bridger-Teton National Forest USFS 25,443 87 Twenty-two miles southeast of Moran, WY 307-395-2351
Pack Trail Bridger-Teton National Forest USFS 19,652 10 2 miles northeast of the confluence of the South Fork and North Fork of Fish Creek 307-395-2351