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September 6, 2022 - The National Multi-agency Coordinating Group increased the national preparedness level to 4 today. This is due to significant fire activity occurring in multiple geographic areas and an increase in requests for national resources.
Currently, 69 wildfires and complexes have burned 475,766 acres in eight states. More than 13,000 wildland fire personnel are assigned to incidents. Four Type 1 incident management teams (IMTs) and 14 Type 2 IMTs are supporting incidents in the West.
A fuels and fire behavior advisory has been issued for northern California due to dry fuels and the potential fore extreme fire behavior with the hot, dry and windy weather pattern. Active fuels and fire behavior advisories are posted on the Predictive Services fuels and fire danger webpage.
We are still having technical issues and the state statistics and tables are not available today. Please visit the Incident Management Situation Report for more information.
Very hot, dry, and unstable conditions will be prevalent across much of the West peaking along thermal trough(s) in California into the Northwest and Great Basin. Widespread temperatures over 100°F are expected, including much of the Central Valley and surrounding foothills above 110°F. Minimum relative humidity will be 3-15% across much of the West and breezy winds are likely to develop in portions of northeast California into southern and central Oregon and in portions of Wyoming. Near record Hot, Dry, Windy Index values are expected across the northern half of California and much of southern and central Oregon as well. Existing and any emerging new fires in these areas will be very active, with increased activity expected on most if not all existing large fires. Isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms are possible in the southern and central Sierra into western Nevada and from southwest Colorado into portions of Arizona and southern California over the higher terrain. Scattered thunderstorms and showers are likely from the Gulf Coast through much of the Southeast Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast. Heavy rain is likely from the DelMarVa through New Jersey and Connecticut.
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
2 | States currently reporting large fires: |
Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
69 |
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Acres from active fires | 475,766 | |
Fires contained | 1 |
Year-to-date statistics
2022 (1/1/22-9/05/22) | Fires: 49,032 | Acres: 6,300,275 |
2021 (1/1/21-9/05/21) | Fires: 43,457 | Acres: 5,073,241 |
2020 (1/1/20-9/05/20) | Fires: 40,883 | Acres: 4,645,048 |
2019 (1/1/19-9/05/19) | Fires: 35,162 | Acres: 4,185,527 |
2018 (1/1/18-9/05/18) | Fires: 46,228 | Acres: 6,990,889 |
2017 (1/1/17-9/05/17) | Fires: 47,473 | Acres: 7,995,650 |
2016 (1/1/16-9/05/16) | Fires: 41,689 | Acres: 4,698,891 |
2015 (1/1/15-9/05/15) | Fires: 44,353 | Acres: 8,440,225 |
2014 (1/1/14-9/05/14) | Fires: 38,532 | Acres: 2,778,252 |
2013 (1/1/13-9/05/13) | Fires: 35,440 | Acres: 3,902,387 |
2012 (1/1/12-9/05/12) | Fires: 45,278 | Acres: 7,970,237 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
2012-2021 | Fires: 41,731 | Acres: 5,6638,437 |
Source: NIFC