Across the country, 15 large wildfires are being managed under full suppression strategies and one under a strategy other than full suppression, across seven geographic areas. More than 2,700 wildland firefighters and support personnel are currently assigned to these incidents. Since the start of the year, 31,039 wildfires have burned nearly 1.3 million acres nationwide.
In addition to supporting incidents at home, American firefighters and support personnel are participating in wildland fire response in Canada, where there is currently a national preparedness level 5. The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group approved requests for assistance from the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre. U.S. resources have been mobilized to Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Support includes interagency hotshot crews, incident management teams, overhead personnel, aviation resources, equipment, and supplies.
For more information on the valued, long-standing partnership with the Canadian wildland fire service and updated information about current resources involved, visit our International Support page. To follow the latest wildfire updates from Canada, visit the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre.
Parts of the United States are experiencing smoke impacts from the wildfires in Canada. Monitor air quality and smoke patterns in your area using AirNow.gov to plan and limit your exposure. The 2025 National Fire Year Themes remind us to be smoke ready.
Many areas of the West will experience warm and dry conditions, with temperatures reaching 5 to 10 degrees above normal across much of the Great Basin, Southwest, Southern California and into the Central Rocky Mountains. Relative humidity in the lower elevations will reach the single digits. Westerly flow will develop west of the Continental Divide and will align with terrain to create downslope flow along the lee of the Sierra and the Cascades, creating elevated fire weather conditions along the Colombia River Gorge and critical fire weather conditions in Western Nevada where fuels are more supportive of fire growth. Breezy conditions are also likely across the northern Great Basin and parts of the Southwest. The exception to the warm and dry conditions will be the northern Pacific Coast and along the Canadian border of Washington where scattered precipitation is expected, and temperatures will be near or below normal. Isolated thunderstorms and showers are possible in the high terrain of the Northern Rockies, and a slight chance for severe thunderstorms will extend from central Montana into the Texas Panhandle. More widespread precipitation will fall east of the Continental Divide with the highest amounts expected in the Lower Mississippi Valley and also in the Northern Great Plains and Upper Mississippi Valley. In Alaska, a widespread warming and drying trend will continue across the mainland, with gusty southerly winds forecast for the far western part of the state.
Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk
