Nationwide, nine new large fires were reported this week. A total of 848 firefighters and fire support personnel are assigned to incidents. Year to date, there have been 22,759 total wildfires for a total of 988,319 acres, both higher than the 10-year averages of 15,764 wildfires and 939,503 acres.
All firefighters and support personnel attend annual fire refresher training at the onset of the spring/summer season. These trainings utilize the 2025 core component module package for RT-130, Wildland Fire Safety Training Annual Refresher (WFSTAR), a series of videos covering lessons learned in 2024, key topics, outlooks for 2025, and more. This week, we're highlighting the final section in this series: a case study involving a shelter deployment on the Country Fire near Sacramento, CA. The video examines the situation and the decisions made by those involved. Such case studies provide opportunities for discussion and critical thinking to prepare firefighters and support personnel for potential life-and-death situations.
The National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook is available for the period of April through July 2025. Significant wildfire potentialis expected throughout parts of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and several southeastern states through April.
The 2025 national fire year themes remind us that wildland fire is everyone’s fight. By working together, using new tools and technology, understanding how fire affects our homes and landscapes, and taking steps to reduce smoke impacts, we can keep firefighters, support personnel, and communities safer.
Weather
A cold front stretching from the Great Lakes to the southern Plains today will slowly move south and east to off the Gulf and East Coasts by early next week. Widespread wetting rain is likely with the front, although breezy southerly winds along the Carolina coast today and tomorrow will create areas of elevated conditions before the front arrives. Rainfall will be more scattered in Florda, with not all areas receiving rain, while the Mid- Atlantic region will likely see widespread rain over 1 inch early next week bringing significant relief. In the West, a warm and dry day is expected today before an upper-level low moves into California this weekend and into the Greater Four Corners early next week. A period of breezy and dry southerly winds will develop ahead of the low this weekend, with the greatest chance of elevated to critical conditions across southeast Arizona and southwest New Mexico Sunday. Otherwise, scattered to widespread shower and isolated thunderstorms will develop across the Intermountain West this weekend into early next week, with the heaviest rain likely from the Great Basin into the central Rockies and southern and central High Plains. Mild and dry conditions are likely this weekend into mid-next week across the northern Plains and Upper Midwest, but winds are expected to be light overall. Widespread showers are expected across the central and eastern Interior of Alaska today before cooler but drier conditions develop for early next week, with periods of showers are likely to continue near the southern coast. Breezy trade winds are expected across Hawai’i for much of the next week with occasional windward showers.
Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response
* New fires are identified with an asterisk
8
States currently reporting large fires:
Total number of large fires under full suppression strategies
