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September 29, 2022 - Ninety-two large fires and complexes have burned 781,455 acres in seven states. One new large fire was reported in Oklahoma. About 5,700 wildland firefighters and support personnel 
are assigned to wildfires.
Federal and state land management agencies are working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide support to recovery efforts in Florida and other southeastern states after Hurricane Ian made landfall yesterday.
Heavy rains will continue in Florida, the Carolinas, central Appalachians and into the Mid-Atlantic states. Visit the Predictive Services website for more information about current weather conditions and listen to the weekly fuels and fire danger podcast.
Tropical Storm Ian will track north-northeast from the Florida Peninsula towards the South Carolina coast. However, heavy rain and flooding remain expected across the northern half of the Florida Peninsula into far southeast Georgia, with tropical storm force winds near Ian’s center. Elevated to locally critical fire weather conditions are expected across far southwest Georgia, southern Alabama, the western Florida Panhandle, southern Mississippi, and southern Louisiana as north-northeast sustained winds of 10-25 mph gusting 20-40 mph amid minimum relative humidity of 15-35% develop. Dry and breezy conditions are also likely in portions of the High Plains and western and central Great Basin. Showers will overspread portions of the Northwest into the northern Rockies, while isolated to scattered thunderstorms are likely from southeast California and southern Arizona northward into Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, and the northern Rockies. Cooler temperatures will spread east and south from the Pacific Northwest through the northern Great Basin and central Montana behind a cold front.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
1 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
92 | |
| Acres from active fires | 781,455 | |
| Fires contained | 1 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2022 (1/1/22-9/29/22) | Fires: 53,338 | Acres: 6,872,196 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-9/29/21) | Fires: 46,091 | Acres: 5,907,288 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-9/29/20) | Fires: 44,161 | Acres: 7,524,840 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-9/29/19) | Fires: 39,667 | Acres: 4,360,331 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-9/29/18) | Fires: 49,245 | Acres: 7,770,032 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-9/29/17) | Fires: 49,526 | Acres: 8,464,884 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-9/29/16) | Fires: 45,121 | Acres: 4,880,788 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-9/29/15) | Fires: 49,282 | Acres: 9,055,454 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-9/29/14) | Fires: 40,616 | Acres: 3,024,151 |
| 2013 (1/1/13-9/29/13) | Fires: 38,817 | Acres: 4,092,849 |
| 2012 (1/1/12-9/29/12) | Fires: 48,142 | Acres: 8,787,046 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2012-2021 | Fires: 44,985 | Acres: 6,372,260 |
Source:NIFC
