Firefighters are suppressing 22 large fires across the country, nine of which are located in Washington. 8,946 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents. Year-to-date, 51,823 wildfires have been reported nationwide, for a total acreage of 4,488,530.
While the activity of fire year 2025 continues on a downward trend, many areas of the country remain extremely dry. Don't let the cooler temperatures make you complacent about fire safety at home and on your public lands. Whether you are enjoying a campfire or using a burn barrel to clean up your property, make sure your fire is in an area clear of vegetation that could ignite, keep an eye on embers, and be prepared to put your fire out if the wind picks up. Fire is a useful tool and can be a cozy pleasure, but we must treat it like the responsibility that it is, for the sake of our communities and natural spaces.
Breezy westerly winds gusting to 40 mph amid minimum relative humidity of 10-25% will develop along the east slopes of the Cascades into the Columbia Basin creating elevated to critical conditions. An upper-level low moving into California will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms from the central and southern Sierra into southern Nevada and much of Arizona. Mostly dry conditions are expected in the Rockies amid seasonable temperatures and humidity. A cold front stretching from the northern Gulf Coast into the Northeast with scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms, with significant relief expected for much of New England. Dry conditions are expected on much of the Plains, but temperatures will rise to above normal for much of the northern Plains into the Upper Mississippi Valley.
Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk
