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July 17, 2024 - Currently, 59 large active wildfires are currently being managed nationwide, and have burned 966,923 acres. Fire managers are using full suppression strategies on 50 of these 
wildfires. Nearly 20,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel, 24 complex incident management teams, and 5 type 1 incident management teams are assigned to incidents across the nation.
Evacuation orders are in effect for residents near the Lone Rock, Larch Creek, Falls, Pioneer, Larch Creek, Cougar Creek, Lake, Texas, Graff Point, Bench Lake, Miller Creek, Hill, and Shelly Fires. If you live in an area that has been evacuated, please follow the instructions from local authorities. They will provide the latest recommendations based on the threat to your community and appropriate safety measures.
Since January 1, 24,953 wildfires have burned 3,085,742 acres in the United States. More than 24,160 of these wildfires were started by people, compared to about 1,500 that were ignited by lightning. States with the most human-caused wildfires include California, Georgia, Florida, Texas and Missouri. With temperatures hitting record highs in many areas, it's imperative we all do our part to recreate responsibly and prevent wildfires.
The Great Basin Coordination Center's predictive services staff have issued three fuels and fire behavior advisories for Nevada, Southern Idaho and Utah and Arizona Strip. There is also a fuels and fire behavior advisory in effect for California. Residents, travelers, or workers on their way to any of 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 July through October. For additional information about the current outlook visit the Outlook page on the NICC site.
Looking for information on a specific wildfire? Inciweb is a good place to look. If you don't see the fire you are looking for there, try contacting the local jurisdiction for information. If you are in California, it may be a CAL FIRE incident. Looking for information about air quality and smoke? Explore the national Fire and Smoke Map. An abundance of information tools are available through the National Interagency Coordination Center.
Hot, well above normal temperatures will continue in the Northwest into much of Idaho and central/western Montana with minimum relative humidity of 7-20% and poor overnight recovery. Isolated dry thunderstorms are likely to be ongoing near in northwest Oregon and southwest Washington in the morning before dissipating. Isolated to scattered mixed wet and dry thunderstorms will redevelop in the afternoon across much of central and eastern Washington, including the Cascades, and northeast Oregon then move into central Idaho, Idaho Panhandle, and western Montana during the evening, possibly continuing overnight. Westerly winds gusting to 30 mph will develop east of the Cascades in the afternoon as well. Scattered mainly wet thunderstorms are expected in the Southwest and central Rockies due to abundant moisture from the monsoon and moisture moving westward. However, on the western periphery of the moisture, isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms are possible in eastern Nevada and southwest Idaho into much of Utah as drier air moves into the Great Basin. Much cooler air will move south through much of the Plains behind a cold front, while scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms develop along and ahead of the front from Oklahoma through the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys and Mid-Atlantic. Cool and moist conditions will continue in Alaska, with lighter, but dry, trade winds expected in Hawai’i.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
6 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
59 | |
| Acres from active fires | 802,303 | |
| Fires contained | 3 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-7/17/24) | Fires: 24,953 | Acres: 3,085,742 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-7/17/23) | Fires: 27,303 | Acres: 777,732 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-7/17/22) | Fires: 37,070 | Acres: 5,357,050 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-7/17/21) | Fires: 34,776 | Acres: 2,448,574 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-7/17/20) | Fires: 28,593 | Acres: 1,787,760 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-7/17/19) | Fires: 23,230 | Acres: 2,194,900 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-7/17/18) | Fires: 34,521 | Acres: 3,457,399 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-7/17/17) | Fires: 34,949 | Acres: 4,432,752 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-7/17/16) | Fires: 29,774 | Acres: 2,672,119 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-7/17/15) | Fires: 32,548 | Acres: 5,548,446 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-7/17/14) | Fires: 29,958 | Acres: 1,131,165 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 31,061 | Acres: 2,931,422 |
Source: NIFC
