as of October 13, 2023 at 7:30 a.m. MDT (on a scale from 1 to 5)
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May 10, 2024
Five new large fires were reported in the past week. Currently, five large uncontained wildfires are burning in Florida, Mississippi, and Arizona under a full suppression strategy. On large uncontained wildfire is burning under a strategy other than full suppression in Oregon. Wildland firefighters and support personnel contained two large fires this week.
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Dry conditions will continue into Saturday across the Southwest west of the Divide, with locally breezy conditions along the Mogollon Rim. Meanwhile, scattered to widespread showers, with high elevation snow, will develop near and east of the Divide in Colorado and New Mexico into the adjacent High Plains. Dry and breezy conditions will likely spread across much of New Mexico Sunday into Monday, but conditions will likely be mitigated by earlier precipitation. Above normal temperatures are forecast across the Northwest into California, the northern Great Basin, and northern Rockies into early next week. Temperatures will cool closer to normal mid-next week, with scattered showers for the northern Rockies into the northern Plains. Widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop from central Texas and Oklahoma through the Southeast this weekend through early next week, with heavy rain from central/east Texas into Georgia. Precipitation will fall across the Florida Panhandle but amounts for the central and southern Florida peninsula remain uncertain, with very dry and occasionally breezy conditions preceding the rain across the peninsula. Periods of light to moderate showers are also forecast across the Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley, and Northeast for the next week. Cool and showery conditions are forecast for much of Alaska into early next week. A wet pattern is forecast for Hawai’i through the weekend due to an upper level low, with gradual drying but still showery conditions for the islands early to mid-next week.
Number of new large fires or emergency response * New fires are identified with an asterisk |
5 | States currently reporting large fires: |
Number of active large fires Total does not include individual fires within complexes. |
6 | |
Acres from active fires | 8,965 | |
Fires contained | 2 |
2024 (1/1/24-5/10/24) | Fires: 13,422 | Acres: 1,842,578 |
2023 (1/1/23-5/10/23) | Fires: 14,799 | Acres: 458,078 |
2022 (1/1/22-5/10/22) | Fires: 23,801 | Acres: 1,273,559 |
2021 (1/1/21-5/10/21) | Fires: 20,381 | Acres: 544,021 |
2020 (1/1/20-5/10/20) | Fires: 13,966 | Acres: 286,324 |
2019 (1/1/19-5/10/19) | Fires: 11,825 | Acres: 229,470 |
2018 (1/1/18-5/10/18) | Fires: 20,444 | Acres: 1,460,176 |
2017 (1/1/17-5/10/17) | Fires: 21,739 | Acres: 2,070,969 |
2016 (1/1/16-5/10/16) | Fires: 17,116 | Acres: 1,501,828 |
2015 (1/1/15-5/10/15) | Fires: 18,020 | Acres: 357,315 |
2014 (1/1/14-5/10/14) | Fires: 21,511 | Acres: 424,984 |
2014-2023 | Fires: 18,212 | Acres: 858,122 |
Arizona
Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
* Flying Bucket Edit |
Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - Central District Edit |
ST | 2,795 | 75 | Fourteen miles southwest of Maricopa, AZ | |
* Horse Edit |
Tonto National Forest Edit |
USFS | 512 | 29 | Twenty-eight miles southwest of Payson, AZ | |
* Wolf Edit |
Coconino National Forest Edit |
USFS | 1,616 | 0 | Twenty-three miles north of Payson, AZ |