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July 3, 2024 - Nationwide, there are 60 large wildfires and complexes, 18 of which are being managed under full suppression strategies. 
Wildland firefighters and support personnel in Alaska are managing 37 incidents. Six complex incident management teams and one type 1 incident management team have been assigned or are currently mobilizing to incidents. Approximately 7,000 firefighters and support personnel are assigned including more than 160 crews, 350 engines, and multiple aviation resources.
It's almost time for the biggest fireworks holiday of the year. Unsurprisingly, every year wildfires are ignited by fireworks. Fireworks have no place on public lands, and even on your own property, must be handled with serious care. Even without fireworks, outdoor celebrations during some of the hottest and driest weather of the summer often results in wildland firefighters putting in grueling overtime to catch careless accidental starts - campfires and recreational shooting are other common culprits. Please do your part to prevent wildfires as you enjoy your public lands over the holiday.
The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center's Predictive Services unit and its partners have issued a fuels and fire behavior advisory spanning from central Alaska into the northeast Interior to the border with Canada. Peak fire season period is now underway in Alaska, and conditions are expected to worsen under persisting and recurrent hot, dry air masses, combined with the long daylight period. There is already a fuels and fire behavior advisory issued for California that highlights abnormally high fine fuel loading across the state. Residents, travelers, or workers on their ways to these states should be advised and familiarize themselves with the elevated risks.
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.
Alaska’s highs will be in the 50s and 60s today, with relative humidity from the mid 30s into the 90s, along with a slight chance for showers. The Pacific Northwest, east of the Cascades, will be warm and dry, with temperatures in the 80s to around 90 and relative humidity in the teens, with single digits possible in southeast Oregon. For California and the desert southwest, the relative humidity will fall into the teens and single digits, with high temperatures forecast to range from around 110 for the Central Valley of California, to 125 in the desert southwest. Northern California will be breezy, with a west wind gusting up to 30 mile per hour. The Great Basin is forecast to see relative humidity between 5 and 20%. The central Snake River Valley, as well as parts of central and eastern Utah, are forecast to see a west wind with gusts up to 40 miles per hour. In the Four Corners area, the monsoon will wind down with chances for rain only near the southern US border, and temperatures will range from the mid 90s to around 100, with relative humidity dipping to the single digits. A wind of 15 to 20 miles per hour is also forecast. The Plains in Texas and Oklahoma continue to see highs in the upper 90s to above 100 and relative humidity below 30%.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
7 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
55 | |
| Acres from active fires | 403,404 | |
| Fires contained | 2 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-7/03/24) | Fires: 21,788 | Acres: 2,601,477 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-7/03/23) | Fires: 24,335 | Acres: 684,592 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-7/03/22) | Fires: 34,311 | Acres: 4,452,894 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-7/03/21) | Fires: 31,334 | Acres: 1,515,572 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-7/03/20) | Fires: 25,033 | Acres: 1,475,792 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-7/03/19) | Fires: 20,198 | Acres: 1,210,899 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-7/03/18) | Fires: 29,526 | Acres: 2,734,277 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-7/03/17) | Fires: 30,763 | Acres: 2,933,346 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-7/03/16) | Fires: 26,346 | Acres: 2,236,374 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-7/03/15) | Fires: 28,673 | Acres: 2,934,196 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-7/03/14) | Fires: 26,684 | Acres: 909,848 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 27,516 | Acres: 2,021,830 |
Source: NIFC
