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as of November 11 at 6 p.m. MST (on a scale from 1 to 5) Current hours for the National Fire Information Center are |
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January 15, 2021 Six new large fires were reported this week, four in Texas and two in Montana. To date, 373 wildfires have burned 6,251 acres in the United States. Weather Offshore flow will continue across southern California through the weekend with Red Flag and high-risk conditions today into Saturday. Post-frontal dry and windy conditions will develop today across portions of the central and southern Plains with blizzard conditions between the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. An upper low will dive southward across the Intermountain West and into southern California and the Southwest early next week as upper- level ridging gives way to upper-level troughing over the West next week. A strong Santa Ana wind event is likely to start Monday and continue through Tuesday and possibly into Wednesday morning. Dry and windy conditions are also expected in portions of the southern Great Basin and Southwest early next week. Precipitation is forecast over much of the Southwest by mid-week with heavy rain possible in eastern Texas and southeast Oklahoma into the Lower Mississippi Valley late next week. There is a chance for more widespread precipitation over the West late next week into next weekend as the large-scale pattern begins to change. |
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| Daily statistics 1/15/21 | ||
| 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. |
5 |
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| Acres from active fires | 2,874 | |
| Fires contained | 1 | |
| Year-to-date statistics | ||
| 2021 (1/1/21-1/15/21) | Fires: 373 | Acres: 6,251 |
| 2020 (1/1/20-1/15/20) | Fires: 567 | Acres: 12,954 |
| 2019 (1/1/19-1/15/19) | Fires: 218 | Acres: 2,310 |
| 2018 (1/1/18-1/15/18) | Fires: 1,008 | Acres: 7,155 |
| 2017 (1/1/17-1/15/17) | Fires: 483 | Acres: 9,124 |
| 2016 (1/1/16-1/15/16) | Fires: 184 | Acres: 544 |
| 2015 (1/1/15-1/15/15) | Fires: 305 | Acres: 813 |
| 2014 (1/1/14-1/15/14) | Fires: 283 | Acres: 3,388 |
| 2013 (1/1/13-1/15/13) | Fires: 158 | Acres: 3,146 |
| 2012 (1/1/12-1/15/12) | Fires: 1,059 | Acres: 50,312 |
| 2011 (1/1/11-1/15/11) | Fires: 797 | Acres: 8,248 |
| 10-year average Year-to-Date | ||
| 2011-2020 | Fires: 482 | Acres: 9,234 |
| Montana | Fires: 1 | Acres: 1,000 | New: 2 | Contained: 1 | ||
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| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
| * North Delphia |
Musselshell County |
ST | 1,000 | 90 | 8 miles north of Delphia, MT | |
| * Great Divide |
Dawson County |
ST | 3,202 | 100 | ||
| Texas | Fires: 4 | Acres: 1,874 | New: 4 | Contained: 0 | ||
| Fire | Unit | Agency | Size | % Ctn | Location | Information |
| * Campbell |
Texas A & M Forest Service |
ST | 320 | 95 | 5 miles east of Olney | 936-217-7013 |
| * Geese |
Texas A & M Forest Service |
ST | 400 | 50 | 8 miles north of Lampasas | 2546338612 |
| * May |
Texas A & M Forest Service |
ST | 780 | 95 | 16 miles north of Brownwood | 936-217-7013 |
| * Old Lake |
Texas A & M Forest Service |
ST | 374 | 95 | 5 miles southeast of Winters, TX | 936-217-7013 |