as of September 22, 2026 at 7:30 a.m. MDT (on a scale from 1 to 5)
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October 2, 2026
Firefighters are currently working to contain 11 large fires across the country. There are 4,093 firefighters and support personnel assigned to incidents, including 65 crews, 119 engines, and 26 helicopters. Fires are reported in the Southern California, Northwest, and Southern geographic areas.
Year-to-date, 62,738 fires have burned more than 9 million acres, 135% of the 10-year average number of fires and 147% of the average acres burned for this date.
The National Interagency Coordination Center's Predictive Services office has released new significant wildland fire potential outlooks for October 2026 through January 2027, indicating that at according to current forecasts, significant fire potential is expected to linger longest in the Southern geographic area (between eastern Texas and Kentucky) and Puerto Rico. Explore these and other products on the NICC Outlooks page.
A cold front will slowly move across east Texas, the Tennessee Valley, Appalachians, Mid- Atlantic, and Northeast today bringing scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms. The heaviest rain will fall in east Texas and the Ohio to Tennessee Valleys. Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms will also develop in much of the Southeast ahead of the front, with the most widespread storms along the northern Gulf Coast and in Florida. In the West, the warming trend continues as temperatures rise to 5-15°F above normal across most of the West, with only portions of the Southwest remaining near to below normal. Minimum relative humidity will remain very low in California and Nevada at 5-15% with areas of poor overnight recovery, with higher minima of 15-30% in the northern Intermountain West. Winds will be light in California and Nevada, but locally breezy west winds will develop near and east of the Divide in Montana and Wyoming.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
1 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Total number of large fires | 11 | |
| Acres from all active fires | 1,640,128 | |
| Fires contained | 1 |
| 2026 (1/1/26-10/02/26) | Fires: 62,738 | Acres: 9,000,619 |
| 2025 (1/1/25-10/02/25) | Fires: 53,319 | Acres: 4,692,890 |
| 2024 (1/1/24-10/02/24) | Fires: 39,169 | Acres: 7,438,367 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-10/02/23) | Fires: 45,203 | Acres: 2,469,660 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-10/02/22) | Fires: 54,184 | Acres: 6,924,968 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-10/02/21) | Fires: 46,509 | Acres: 5,942,055 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-10/02/20) | Fires: 44,541 | Acres: 7,719,390 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-10/02/19) | Fires: 40,581 | Acres: 4,373,493 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-10/02/18) | Fires: 47,727 | Acres: 7,753,981 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-10/02/17) | Fires: 49,864 | Acres: 8,426,099 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-10/02/16) | Fires: 45,398 | Acres: 4,893,391 |
| 2016-2025 | Fires: 46,638 | Acres: 6,106,514 |
Alabama
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradley Road | Alabama Forestry Commission | ST | 300 | 90 | Fourteen miles west of Brewton, AL |
California
Oklahoma
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone Bridge | Oklahoma Division of Forestry | ST | 180 | 100 | Five miles northeast of Wilburton, OK |
Oregon
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austin | Mt. Hood National Forest | USFS | 12,888 | 98 | 25 Miles SE of Estacada, OR | 541-982-5802 |
| Grasshopper | Mt. Hood National Forest | USFS | 93,972 | 98 | 14 miles SW of Dufur, OR | 541-982-5802 |
Texas
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco 2 | Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge | FWS | 510 | 10 | Two miles south of LA Casita, TX |
Washington
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Hatch Grade | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | ST | 9,023 | 70 | Six miles southwest of Touchet, WA | |
| Little Giant | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | USFS | 172,896 | 93 | 30 miles NW of Leavenworth, WA | 509-776-6953 |
| Sinlahekin | Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources | ST | 166,007 | 96 | 12 Miles W of Tonasket, WA | 509-287-4942 |
| Sisi | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | USFS | 4,343 | 29 | 10 miles northwest of Stehekin, WA | 509-776-6953 |
| Three Queens | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | USFS | 9,575 | 33 | 6 Miles E of Snoqualmie Pass, WA | 509-213-5294 |
