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July 5, 2024 - Currently, 59 wildfires have burned 460,007 acres in nine states. Twenty-one wildfires are being managed under full suppression strategies. 
Alaska continues to have the most activity where fire managers are working on 39 large fires. Nearly 9,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents nationwide.
To date, 22,185 wildfires have burned 2,736,981 acres. More than 20,400 wildfires were started by people. In comparison, lightning ignited about 1,050 wildfires so far this year. The states with the most human-caused wildfires include California, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Missouri.
Some ways people cause wildfires include walking away without putting out their campfire, igniting fireworks on public lands, or parking their cars over dry brush and grass. These behaviors are dangerous and unlawful. You can make a difference and reduce unwanted wildland fires by reporting careless and illegal behavior. If you see something suspicious, please call the nearest law enforcement office and help protect our wildlands.
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.
Hot temperatures are forecast across much of the West, with record-setting temperatures in California and southwest Oregon and well above normal values across the rest of the Northwest into the central/western Great Basin and Arizona. Very dry air is forecast across the Intermountain West where minimum relative humidity will fall below 15% and overnight recovery will remain poor, especially for mid-slopes and ridges. Winds are generally expected to be light, but locally breezy northwesterly winds will continue in the Coast Ranges of California into portions of the Snake River Plain. Isolated thunderstorms will develop along the High Plains from eastern Montana to eastern New Mexico, although a few storms are possible as far west as the Divide in New Mexico. A cold front stretching from Texas to the Great Lakes will slowly move south and east, with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Cool, wet weather will continue across Interior Alaska, spreading into south-central Alaska during the day.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
5 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
59 | |
| Acres from active fires | 460,007 | |
| Fires contained | 3 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-7/05/24) | Fires: 22,185 | Acres: 2,736,981 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-7/05/23) | Fires: 24,939 | Acres: 697,258 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-7/05/22) | Fires: 32,499 | Acres: 4,606,828 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-7/05/21) | Fires: 31,722 | Acres: 1,555,291 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-7/05/20) | Fires: 25,786 | Acres: 1,492,543 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-7/05/19) | Fires: 20,778 | Acres: 1,255,136 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-7/05/18) | Fires: 30,607 | Acres: 2,905,383 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-7/05/17) | Fires: 31,696 | Acres: 3,113,517 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-7/05/16) | Fires: 27,024 | Acres: 2,309,167 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-7/05/15) | Fires: 29,078 | Acres: 2,928,113 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-7/05/14) | Fires: 27,089 | Acres: 939,265 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 28,085 | Acres: 2,155,727 |
Source: NIFC
