Firefighters are working to suppress and contain 95 large fires across the country, including 13 new large incidents since yesterday. 25,796 firefighters and support personnel are engaged in nationwide fire activity, including 569 crews, 1,534 engines, and 158 helicopters. So far this year, 42,379 fires have burned more than 4 million acres across the United States. Fire activity continues to be elevated in the Northwest Geographic Area, with 51 uncontained large fires and 18 Complex Incident Management Teams committed in Oregon and Washington. The National Multi-Agency Coordinating Group (NMAC) at the National Interagency Fire Center has mobilized 74 fire management specialists from Australia and New Zealand to support ongoing wildfire suppression operations across the Pacific Northwest. The specialists will provide 30 days of operational support under longstanding bilateral arrangements for international wildfire assistance that have been in effect since 2002. These agreements build on decades of cooperation among wildland fire agencies in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico, ensuring resources can be shared when fire activity demands additional capacity.
*Note: Due to a technical issue, some of the statistics on this site may be temporarily incorrect. We apologize for the delayed update and correct the issue as soon as possible.
Weather
Areas of elevated conditions are expected from northeast California and far southeast Oregon into the northern Great Basin today from southwest winds 15-25 mph with gusts 25-35 mph amid relative humidity of 5-15%. Temperatures will be cooler today and closer to normal in the northern half of the West, and extensive smoke shading will result in temperatures 10-15 degrees cooler than they would otherwise be from central Oregon into central/northern Idaho and Montana. Extensive smoke will also drift east through the Dakotas, Minnesota, and into the Ohio Valley. Isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms will develop this afternoon across southwest Montana and Wyoming this afternoon capable of several new ignitions. Hot and dry conditions are expected in much of central and southern California, while isolated wet monsoon thunderstorms are expected in the Southwest into eastern Utah and Colorado, but rainfall footprints will be smaller than those observed last week. Farther east, breezy conditions, relative humidity as low as 15%, and hot temperatures will support locally elevated fire weather conditions across the southern High Plains. In Minnesota and Wisconsin, breezy northwesterly winds will develop but relative humidity is higher near or above 40%. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop in the eastern Great Lakes to the Ohio Valley, with isolated showers and thunderstorms in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Florida.
Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk
