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September 30, 2022 - Twelve new large fires were reported yesterday, eight in Idaho and one each in Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington. More than 840,000 acres have burned in 88 large fires and complexes. Idaho and Montana have the most large fires where wildland fire managers are dealing with 59 large fires. Nearly 5,800 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the country.
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.
Fire danger has returned to normal or above normal in the Northwest, parts of the Great Basin and California. Parts of Oklahoma and Texas could see an increase in initial attack activity. Visit the Predictive Services website for more information about current weather conditions and listen to the weekly fuels and fire danger podcast.
Ian will make landfall on the South Carolina coast as a tropical storm or category one hurricane. Tropical storm to hurricane force winds are expected along the South Carolina coast and possible stretching into portions of Georgia and North Carolina, with storm surge stretching from Georgia to North Carolina, including heights potentially up to seven feet in South Carolina. There is uncertainty on how far inland Ian will maintain tropical storm strength, but near tropical storm force winds are likely near its center into upland South Carolina and possibly western/central North Carolina and eastern Georgia. Regardless, heavy rainfall is expected across the Carolinas, eastern Georgia, and southern Virginia. Lingering relative humidity of 20-35% and breezy north-northeast winds should remain over western portions of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys through the Lower Mississippi Valley and southeast Texas into central Texas. South-southwest sustained winds of 10-20 mph gusting 20-35 mph amid minimum relative humidity of 10-20% are expected on portions of the southern and central High Plains, especially from the Texas Panhandle into southwest Kansas. Dry and breezy conditions are likely to spread farther east and north into Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska as well. Showers and thunderstorms are expected over portions of northern Idaho and western into central Montana, with isolated to scattered thunderstorms likely stretching through the Colorado Rockies into Utah and onto portions of the northern High Plains. Isolated thunderstorms are also likely in far southern Arizona.
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
12 | States currently reporting large fires: |
Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
88 | |
Acres from active fires | 840,751 | |
Fires contained | 9 |
Year-to-date statistics
2022 (1/1/22-9/30/22) | Fires: 53,605 | Acres: 6,885,264 |
2021 (1/1/21-9/30/21) | Fires: 46,190 | Acres: 5,911,020 |
2020 (1/1/20-9/30/20) | Fires: 44,253 | Acres: 7,672,398 |
2019 (1/1/19-9/30/19) | Fires: 40,056 | Acres: 4,367,481 |
2018 (1/1/18-9/30/18) | Fires: 49,299 | Acres: 7,781,236 |
2017 (1/1/17-9/30/17) | Fires: 49,523 | Acres: 8,464,884 |
2016 (1/1/16-9/30/16) | Fires: 45,305 | Acres: 4,887,549 |
2015 (1/1/15-9/30/15) | Fires: 49,972 | Acres: 9,083,787 |
2014 (1/1/14-9/30/14) | Fires: 41,165 | Acres: 3,095,240 |
2013 (1/1/13-9/30/13) | Fires: 38,859 | Acres: 4,093,643 |
2012 (1/1/12-9/30/12) | Fires: 48,192 | Acres: 8,800,744 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
2012-2021 | Fires: 45,067 | Acres: 6,386,766 |
Source: NIFC