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August 26, 2024 - 54 large active wildfires are being managed with full suppression strategies nationwide. Current wildfires have burned 2,061,572 acres. About 
18,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to wildfires, including 18 complex and one Type 1 incident management teams, 418 crews, 705 engines, 95 helicopters, and one Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS).
No other country in the world has a public land system like the United States. Please do your part in protecting it. Remember and teach campfire safety to your children. Make sure campfires are dead out by using dirt and water when stirring the coals. Use a shovel to help properly extinguish your campfire and keep it nearby, just in case. Be careful with matches and lighters and carefully extinguish all smoking materials. Together we can prevent unwanted wildfires.
Sixty fireline management personnel from Australia and New Zealand are assigned to support large fires in the Northwest Area. For more information about the mobilization of wildland firefighters from Australia and New Zealand visit the international support page.
Two hundred forty-five soldiers from the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion and the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment based out of Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) are deployed in support of wildland fire operations on the Boise National Forest. NIMO (Team 2) is assigned to support the military contingent. To learn more about military mobilizations, visit the military support page.
Note: The current reporting from source data for year-to-date figures appears to be underreporting fire acreage in some geographic areas affecting the overall national statistics. Given the very high tempo and scale of national current fire activity, there will be delays in reconciling, especially from areas with large fires and dynamic fire activity. Adjustments may occur as the accuracy of fire locations, mapping and final fire reporting is reconciled.
The mid-level trough of low pressure which advanced through the Pacific Northwest and Northern Californian Friday into Saturday is expected to weaken and lift out of the northern Great Basin into the Northern Rockies Sunday into Sunday night. Gusty southwest winds at 15-25 mph with gusts up to 30 mph are forecast to persist over the eastern Great Basin, Colorado, Wyoming, and the western and northern Plains on Sunday. Relative humidity levels of 10-25 percent are forecast over eastern Montana, central and eastern Wyoming, southern Great Basin, the deserts of southern California, portions of the Southwest, and the western Plains. Cool conditions and minimum humidity levels above 25 percent are expected across the Pacific Northwest, northern California, and the northern Great Basin. Monsoonal moisture is forecast to shift further eastward over along and east of the divide creating areas of showers and storms. Scattered mixed wet/dry storms are forecast over the northern Great Basin. Temperatures will drop slightly across the Southern Plains but remain above normal. Minimum relative humidities will improve slightly over the High Plains but are still expected to drop into the teens. Above normal temperatures will spread north and east into the rest of the Plains and Mississippi Valley as an upper ridge of high pressure intensifies over the central US. Gusty south to southwest winds are forecast over the High Plains up into the Central Plains Sunday afternoon. National Predictive Services Outlook 6 Minutes for Safety: The 6 Minutes for Safety topic of the day is Communication (LCES).
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
1 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Total number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
49 | |
| Acres from active fires | 1,340,979 | |
| Fires contained | 3 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-8/26/24) | Fires: 32,088 | Acres: 5,626,708 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-8/26/23) | Fires: 38,398 | Acres: 1,933,277 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-8/26/22) | Fires: 0 | Acres: 6,105,335 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-8/26/21) | Fires: 41,768 | Acres: 4,822,010 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-8/26/20) | Fires: 38,990 | Acres: 3,820,250 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-8/26/19) | Fires: 32,424 | Acres: 3,963,955 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-8/26/18) | Fires: 43,002 | Acres: 6,353,416 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-8/26/17) | Fires: 46,057 | Acres: 6,729,751 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-8/26/16) | Fires: 39,533 | Acres: 4,395,554 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-8/26/15) | Fires: 43,260 | Acres: 7,697,292 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-8/26/14) | Fires: 38,001 | Acres: 2,702,995 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 40,008 | Acres: 4,763,017 |
Source: NIFC
