as of October 13, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. MDT (on a scale from 1 to 5)
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April 26, 2024
Ten new large fires were reported in the past week. Currently, four large uncontained wildfires are burning in Virginia, Arizona, and Colorado. Wildland firefighters and support personnel contained 9 large fires this week.
For a look ahead, check out the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for seven-day and monthly outlooks generated by predictive services within the National Interagency Coordination Center.
As April comes to a close, it is becoming warmer and drier nationwide. Make sure to include simple fire safety considerations for your home in your spring cleaning - especially if you live in or near wildlands. Examples include cleaning plant litter from your roof and gutters, removing flammable materials that are in contact with the exterior of your home, placing 1/8" mesh over vents in the eaves to protect them from the threat of flying embers, and breaking up continuous fuels in landscaping around your home.
Strong southwesterly winds will continue across much of New Mexico into portions of the central/southern High Plains, with widespread critical conditions into Saturday and possibly Sunday. A storm across the central Plains will slowly move into the western Great Lakes this weekend with severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall for much of the eastern Plains into the Lower/Mid-Mississippi Valley. Widespread wetting rain is forecast for much of the northern Plains into the western Great Lakes as well. The storm will weaken as it moves east with light to moderate rain for the Appalachians, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast early to mid-next week. However, much of the Southeast will remain dry, with several days of minimum relative humidity below 35% possible for South Georgia and Florida. Across the West, a deep upper trough will bring widespread showers and high elevation snow to the much of the West through the weekend. As the storm emerges onto the Plains, more showers and thunderstorms are likely across much of the central and southern Plains mid to late next week, including portions of the High Plains. Fast- moving storms are then likely to track across the northern third of the West next week with periods of light precipitation, but much of the Great Basin, California, and Southwest will return to drier conditions with periods of breezy conditions. A cooling trend is forecast across much of Alaska this weekend into next week with temperatures returning to normal, but any precipitation that occurs will be light. For Hawai’i, moderate trade winds and generally dry conditions are expected into mid-next week. National Predictive Services Outlook 6 Minutes for Safety: The 6 Minutes for Safety topic of the day is Working With Helicopter Drops.
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
10 | States currently reporting large fires: |
Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
4 | |
Acres from active fires | 3,940 | |
Fires contained | 9 |
2024 (1/1/24-4/26/24) | Fires: 11,523 | Acres: 1,802,756 |
2023 (1/1/23-4/26/23) | Fires: 12,674 | Acres: 389,475 |
2022 (1/1/22-4/26/22) | Fires: 21,181 | Acres: 1,080,836 |
2021 (1/1/21-4/26/21) | Fires: 16,998 | Acres: 441,648 |
2020 (1/1/20-4/26/20) | Fires: 11,119 | Acres: 217,588 |
2019 (1/1/19-4/26/19) | Fires: 9,690 | Acres: 190,684 |
2018 (1/1/18-4/26/18) | Fires: 16,850 | Acres: 947,489 |
2017 (1/1/17-4/26/17) | Fires: 18,125 | Acres: 2,366,535 |
2016 (1/1/16-4/26/16) | Fires: 14,917 | Acres: 1,447,537 |
2015 (1/1/15-4/26/15) | Fires: 14,735 | Acres: 311,779 |
2014 (1/1/14-4/26/14) | Fires: 18,361 | Acres: 293,188 |
2014-2023 | Fires: 15,258 | Acres: 751,602 |
Arizona
Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
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* Barnes Edit |
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District Edit |
ST | 315 | 85 | Two miles southwest of Maricopa, AZ | |
* Range Edit |
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Southeast District Edit |
ST | 2,000 | 90 | Six miles northeast of Florence, AZ |
Colorado
Florida
Kansas
Mississippi
New Jersey
North Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
* 24WR00482 Edit |
Virginia Department of Forestry Edit |
ST | 150 | 0 | Two miles northeast of Nancy, VA | |
24WR00443 Edit |
Virginia Department of Forestry Edit |
ST | 130 | 100 | Two miles southwest of Clinchco, VA | |
* 24WR00469 Edit |
Virginia Department of Forestry Edit |
ST | 120 | 100 | ||
* Gochenour Edit |
Virginia Department of Forestry Edit |
ST | 216 | 100 |