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September 7, 2022 - Currently 66 large fires and complexes have burned 438,364 acres. Six new large fires were reported, three in California and one each in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. More than 
15,000 wildland fire personnel are assigned to incidents across the country. Six Type 1 incident management teams (IMTs) and 15 Type 2 IMTs are working on large fires in the Northwest, Southern California, Great Basin, and Northern California areas.
Excessive heat warnings and heat advisories are in effect across California, Nevada, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona until late this week. Red flag warnings are in effect for hot, dry, windy and unstable conditions and isolated to scattered dry lightning across Oregon, Washington, northern California, Idaho, and Montana today.
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.
Since January 1, 49,193 wildfires have burned 6,311,144 acres. Lightning ignited 6,160 wildfires that burned 3.6 million acres. People have caused 42,970 wildfires and 2.7 million acres burned. As weather conditions reach critical levels in many western states, wildland firefighters need you to do your part to prevent wildfires.
When you work and play in our precious public forests and rangelands, it is critical for you to be fire safe. Have spark arresters on equipment and vehicles like chain saws, motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles. Exhaust systems on any vehicle can easily ignite vegetation, so drive and park in designated areas keeping off and away from dry grass and brush. Taking these simple steps can keep you and our natural resources safe.
Very hot, dry, and unstable conditions will be prevalent across much of the West again peaking along thermal trough(s) in California into the Northwest, Great Basin, and northern Rockies. Widespread temperatures over 100°F are expected, including much of the Central Valley and surrounding foothills near 110°F, and minimum relative humidity will be 3-15% across much of the West again. West-southwest winds will also strengthen, with gusts of 25-50 mph, across the Inland Northwest, far northern Nevada, southern and central Idaho, and much of Montana leading to elevated to critical fire weather conditions and high-risk significant fire potential. A weak Pacific cold front will move into the Northwest, northern Rockies, northern Great Basin, and northern California late in the day and overnight. Isolated to scattered mostly dry thunderstorms are expected in the Sierra and from northwest California through portions of Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, and central Montana. Severe outflow winds will accompany some of these storms. Conditions conducive to pyrocumulonimbus development on very active large wildfires are also likely across the Sierra, northeast California, eastern Oregon, southern and central Idaho, and western and central Montana. Isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms are also possible across the greater Four Corners area. Scattered showers and thunderstorms remain likely along the Gulf Coast and in much of the Southeast, central Appalachians, and into the Mid-Atlantic.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
6 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
66 | |
| Acres from active fires | 438,364 | |
| Fires contained | 5 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2022 (1/1/22-9/07/22) | Fires: 49,193 | Acres: 6,311,144 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-9/07/21) | Fires: 43,555 | Acres: 5,104,228 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-9/07/20) | Fires: 41,051 | Acres: 4,729,287 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-9/07/19) | Fires: 35,386 | Acres: 4,204,055 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-9/07/18) | Fires: 46,765 | Acres: 7,037,406 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-9/07/17) | Fires: 47,705 | Acres: 8,036,858 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-9/07/16) | Fires: 41,898 | Acres: 4,713,233 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-9/07/15) | Fires: 44,816 | Acres: 8,495,518 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-9/07/14) | Fires: 38,646 | Acres: 2,786,150 |
| 2013 (1/1/13-9/07/13) | Fires: 35,833 | Acres: 3,905,449 |
| 2012 (1/1/12-9/07/12) | Fires: 45,494 | Acres: 8,026,414 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2012-2021 | Fires: 41,850 | Acres: 5,668,035 |
Source: NIFC
