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July 20, 2024 - Currently, 58 large active wildfires are currently being managed nationwide, and have burned 1,077,697 acres. Fire managers are using full 
suppression strategies on 54 of these wildfires. About 20,200 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 22 complex incident management teams and 7 Type 1 incident management teams.
Evacuation orders are in effect for residents near the Battle Mountain Complex, Falls, Lone Rock, Cougar Creek, Pioneer, Durkee, Larch Creek, Boneyard, Monkey Creek, Swawila, Lake, Bench Lake and Hill 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.
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.
Preparedness level 5 means that national resources are heavily committed, and additional measures are being taken to support geographic areas as possible. Full commitment of national resources is ongoing, and the potential for emerging significant wildland fires is high and expected to remain high in multiple geographic areas. Learn more about preparedness levels.
Hot, record-setting temperatures with low afternoon relative humidity below 20% are expected across the Northwest, northern and western Great Basin, and northern Rockies. Hot, well above normal temperatures will extend into California as well. Poor overnight recovery will continue, with areas below 30% for mid-slopes and ridges. Unstable low-level conditions are likely along the east slopes of the Cascades into northeast Oregon due to an intense thermal trough. Isolated mixed wet and dry thunderstorms are likely for portions of the central and western Great Basin, northeast California, south-central Oregon, and southwest Montana, with the driest storms along the Sierra Front into south-central Oregon. Isolated dry thunderstorms will develop overnight from south-central Oregon to the coast overnight and move northward along the Cascades and the coast. Deeper monsoon moisture will bring scattered wet thunderstorms to much of the Southwest and central Rockies, except southwest Arizona and the Mojave Desert will remain drier with near-record temperatures. Scattered to widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop along a stalled front from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Southeast coast, with scattered showers and thunderstorms expected across the southern Plains to the Upper Mississippi Valley as well. Cool and dry conditions will continue across much of the Great Lakes and Northeast with light winds. Mainland Alaska will see a warming trend, with well above normal temperatures expected along with isolated wet thunderstorms over south-central Alaska and the southeast Interior.
| 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. |
58 | |
| Acres from active fires | 643,749 | |
| Fires contained | 5 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-7/20/24) | Fires: 25,887 | Acres: 3,383,914 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-7/20/23) | Fires: 28,088 | Acres: 819,400 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-7/20/22) | Fires: 18,086 | Acres: 5,510,675 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-7/20/21) | Fires: 35,319 | Acres: 2,585,492 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-7/20/20) | Fires: 29,207 | Acres: 1,761,531 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-7/20/19) | Fires: 23,699 | Acres: 2,385,283 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-7/20/18) | Fires: 35,105 | Acres: 3,579,804 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-7/20/17) | Fires: 35,615 | Acres: 1,583,003 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-7/20/16) | Fires: 30,690 | Acres: 2,792,101 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-7/20/15) | Fires: 32,984 | Acres: 5,436,196 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-7/20/14) | Fires: 30,459 | Acres: 1,246,296 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 31,681 | Acres: 3,048,168 |
Source: NIFC
