US National Interagency Fire Center Wildfire Update as of July 15th

The US National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) reported that as of Monday, July 15th, 11 new wildfires were reported nationwide. Currently, 62 large active wildfires are being managed and have burned 902,253 acres. Fire managers are using full suppression strategies on 49 of these wildfires.

18,468 wildland firefighters and support personnel, 20 complex incident management teams, and 5 type 1 incident management teams are assigned to incidents across the nation. The National Wildfire Preparedness Level has been raised to a 4 out of 5.

The NIFC is reporting that 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.

The national predictive services staff at the National Interagency Coordination Center released the National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook for July through October.

As of Monday, there were 62 active large wildfires that have burned 731,489 acres in 12 states. The state-level breakdown is California with 12 fires; Arizona with 10; Montana with 9; Oregon with 8; New Mexico with 6; Alaska and Utah with 5 each; Idaho and Washington with 2 each; and Colorado, New Jersey, and Wyoming with 1 each. The number of fires contained stands at 7.

The updated year-to-date comparison is as follows:

• Year-to-date through July 15th, 24,541 wildfires were reported, and they have burned 3,065,455 acres.
• During the same period last year, 26,938 wildfires were reported, and they had burned 763,533 acres.
• The 10-year average (2014–23) for the same period is 30,572 wildfires and 2,804,549 acres burned. The above-average number of acres is partially due to the wildfires in Texas in late February.