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September 9, 2024 - As of this morning, 67 large active wildfires are being managed with full suppression strategies. Current wildfires have 
burned 2,146,170 acres. 23,205 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents, including 24 complex and 5 type 1 incident management teams, 522 crews, 1,306 engines, and 168 helicopters.
A huge thank you to the support staff that traveled around the planet from Australia and New Zealand to support U.S. firefighting efforts! The last members of these crews, having completed their assignments, returned home yesterday, September 8. For more information about international mutual aid on fires, 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.
Every year, we hear of and see catastrophic wildfires in the news. They become news most often when they threaten life and communities. Fires are natural events that shape our wildlands, and no region is immune. You can learn to live with fire and become more compatible by becoming Firewise. If you live or build near forests and rangelands, you need to be prepared for wildfire. To see if you are at risk, start here: https://wildfirerisk.org/
Note: Given the very high tempo and scale of national fire activity over the past few months, there have been delays in reconciling actual acreage burned with entries into the reporting systems, especially from areas with large fires and dynamic fire activity. Adjustments are occurring as the accuracy of fire locations, mapping and final fire reporting is reconciled.
The low moving out of the Great Basin will weaken, with the thunderstorms coming to an end. This will flatten the ridge of high pressure over the Central Rockies. High temperatures in the Inland Northwest will remain above normal but will only get into the lower 90s. Farther south across the Central Valley and into Arizona, the heat wave will continue with widespread temperatures of 100 to 110 degrees. RH of 5 to 20% will remain in place across much of the Intermountain West and into the western High Plains. Overnight recoveries will continue to be poor, 20 to 30%. Winds across much of the Intermountain West will be 10 to 15 mph out of the west to southwest, with gusts 20 to 25 mph, and some stronger gusts of 20 to 30 mph across the Northern Rockies and the northern Great Basin. Any existing fire, and additional holdovers, will likely see increasing activity with the winds, and with poor overnight recoveries possibly continuing to burn through the overnight. Some remaining moisture in the Four Corners could still result in isolated mixed wet/dry thunderstorms. Some light rain remains possible from the eastern Great Lakes into the Northeast as a low continues to slowly progress eastward, along with some better rain expected across Florida. A tropical system developing in the western Gulf will bring some increasing moisture into the Texas coast. Outside of this activity expect much of the eastern US to remain dry, with lower RH of 20 to 30% from the eastern High Plains across the Midwest and into the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Winds will be light. National Predictive Services Outlook 6 Minutes for Safety: The 6 Minutes for Safety topic of the day is Building Fireline Downhill With Fire Below.
| Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
4 | States currently reporting large fires: |
| Total number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
54 | |
| Acres from active fires | 1,191,878 | |
| Fires contained | 3 |
Year-to-date statistics
| 2024 (1/1/24-9/09/24) | Fires: 35,757 | Acres: 6,865,542 |
| 2023 (1/1/23-9/09/23) | Fires: 40,840 | Acres: 2,117,411 |
| 2022 (1/1/22-9/09/22) | Fires: 0 | Acres: 6,551,999 |
| 2021 (1/1/21-9/09/21) | Fires: 43,869 | Acres: 5,165,103 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-9/09/20) | Fires: 41,599 | Acres: 5,288,247 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-9/09/19) | Fires: 35,956 | Acres: 4,237,043 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-9/09/18) | Fires: 46,984 | Acres: 7,040,483 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-9/09/17) | Fires: 47,981 | Acres: 8,132,724 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-9/09/16) | Fires: 42,217 | Acres: 4,741,507 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-9/09/15) | Fires: 45,109 | Acres: 8,654,932 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-9/09/14) | Fires: 38,832 | Acres: 2,805,599 |
10-year average Year-to-Date
| 2014-2023 | Fires: 43,149 | Acres: 5,429,112 |
Source: NIFC
