While wildland fire activity continues across multiple geographic areas, there has been a notable decrease in initial attack and large fire growth over the last week. The National Interagency Coordination Center (NICC) has also seen a significant decrease in the ordering of all resource types and an increase in the availability of all nationally shared resources for several days. For these reasons, the national preparedness level dropped to four (PL 4) at 0730 MDT this morning.
Nationally, 27 large wildfires are currently active and have burned 1,155,869 acres. About 9,500 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 11 complex incident management teams, 150 crews, 464 engines, and 102 helicopters.
Wildland firefighters, complex incident management teams and support personnel continue to assist with hurricane relief efforts in Florida and North Carolina.
The National Interagency Coordination Center in cooperation with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center have mobilized two Canadian crews to assist with suppression efforts in the Great Basin area. The crews attended an orientation session earlier this week and will be hosted by the Salmon-Challis National Forest on the Red Rock Fire. Visit our 2024 Canada Support Flickr album to see photos of the crews.
Emergency Stabilization-Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) is a rapid assessment of burned watersheds by a BAER team to identify imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety, property, and critical natural or cultural resources on public lands and take immediate actions to implement emergency stabilization measures before the first post-fire damaging events. BAER work may also replace safety related facilities; remove safety hazards; prevent permanent loss of habitat for threatened and endangered species; prevent the spread of noxious weeds and protect critical cultural resources. For more information on the work these scientists are doing, visit the Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams on InciWeb.
Weather
A deep cutoff low will sit over the Four Corners bringing breezy north to northeasterly winds gusting to 50 mph are forecast on the back side of the low in central and northern California, strongest in the Sierra Foothills, Sacramento Valley, Bay Area, and central coast. Dry, northerly winds will also spread into southern California, likely as a weak Santa Ana, with the strongest winds likely to be in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties. Widespread precipitation is forecast across eastern Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and the Southwest, with snow above 6,000 to 9,000 feet, although only scattered light precipitation will occur near the Mexico border. Drier air is forecast across the northern Intermountain West with below normal temperatures, while showers will spread into western Washington as another storm moves into western Canada. On the Plains into the Upper Mississippi Valley, southerly flow of 15-25 mph gusting to 35 mph is forecast to persist with areas of elevated conditions. Showers are also likely on the central and northern High Plains late in the afternoon as the western cold front approaches. Dry air will persist in much of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Southeast, but winds will remain light. Warmer and drier air will spread into the Ohio Valley and Appalachians, as well, where relative humidity could lower to 25%, with fair to moderate recovery for mid-slopes and ridges in the Appalachians.
Daily statistics
Number of new large fires or emergency response
* New fires are identified with an asterisk
2
States currently reporting large fires:
Total number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes.
The fire is centered around Edwardsburg, but has burned north, east, west and south of the community. It has moved into the Wilderness area. Krassel Ranger District, Payette National Forest
