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June 21, 2024 - New large wildfires were reported in Alaska and Florida yesterday. Currently, 27 large fires have burned 158,734 acres in 10 
states. More than 8,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents across the country. So far in 2024, 19,444 wildfires have burned 2,161,787 acres. While the number of wildfires is slightly below the 10-year average, the acres burned is above the 1,447,290 average.
Evacuation orders remain in effect for residents near the South Fork and Salt fires in New Mexico. Wildland firefighters continue to make progress on the Point and Aero fires in southern California with both more than 50% contained.
The national predictive services staff at the National Interagency Coordination Center released the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for June through September. For additional information about the current outlook visit the Outlook page on the NICC site.
Our forests, parks and rangelands are a natural treasure so please do your part in protecting the open spaces we all value. Enjoy your public lands and protect them by doing your part in fire prevention. Carrying tools to extinguish a flame could prevent a random spark from becoming a wildfire. Take time to download apps and seek out local information about fire restrictions. It takes all of us to prevent wildfires.
Above normal temperatures are expected across California and the northern half of the West, with low relative humidity of 5-20% from the Colorado River into central California, the central/western Great Basin, and Inland Northwest. Abundant moisture will remain across the greater Four Corners today for scattered wet thunderstorms, with heavy rain and flooding possible from the West Slope to the central New Mexico mountains. Isolated to scattered wet thunderstorms will develop east of the Divide in Montana and Wyoming, with widespread showers and thunderstorms across the Dakotas into the Upper Midwest. Cooler temperatures are forecast across the Northeast with scattered showers and thunderstorms, but above normal temperatures will continue in the Appalachians and Mid-Atlantic. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will develop along the Southeast coast, Florida, and south Texas. Above normal temperatures are likely across much of Interior and southwest Alaska, with isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms.
| 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. |
27 | |
| Acres from active fires | 158,734 | |
| Fires contained | 2 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-6/21/24) | Fires: 19,444 | Acres: 2,161,787 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-6/21/23) | Fires: 22,052 | Acres: 636,031 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-6/21/22) | Fires: 31,097 | Acres: 3,245,270 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-6/21/21) | Fires: 28,926 | Acres: 1,097,061 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-6/21/20) | Fires: 22,439 | Acres: 1,008,914 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-6/21/19) | Fires: 17,875 | Acres: 538,959 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-6/21/18) | Fires: 27,421 | Acres: 2,170,976 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-6/21/17) | Fires: 27,943 | Acres: 2,577,471 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-6/21/16) | Fires: 23,453 | Acres: 1,959,315 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-6/21/15) | Fires: 25,633 | Acres: 623,886 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-6/21/14) | Fires: 24,466 | Acres: 843,966 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 24,971 | Acres: 1,447,290 |
Source: NIFC
