2022 Wild Fire Season

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I figured rather than clogging up various threads with a topic that is going to soon be affecting a LOT of us in the western half of the country.
I would start this thread for any and all who are affected by it or take an active or supporting role in suppression of wild fires.

As of Yesterday this is where we stand as a nation.
May 23, 2022

One new large fire was reported in Texas yesterday. Nationally, 14 large fires have burned 536,604 acres in seven states. New Mexico has six uncontained large fires and Colorado has three. Arkansas, California, Nebraska, New Hampshire, and Texas each have one.

To date, 26,486 wildfires have burned 1,730,311 million acres across the United States. This remains well above the 10-year average of 19,948 wildfires that burned 821,902 acres.

https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information/nfn
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Fire east of Palermo CA day before yesterday
some were issued evacuation orders
tomorrow and Wednesday we are under extreme fire watch with high
north winds

starting too soon for us
 
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Blackjack said:
Many states now have these dashboards https://blm-egis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/a23a625f4d18412ea13cffeefcbe7f5e If you are in a fire prone state they are worth keeping an eye one.
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Alaska being off by itself makes it a little different than the lower 48, California has its own fire agency too, but the rest of us lower 47 have regions that aren't necessarily based off of state line boundaries. Inciweb is a good starting point and then you can brake down into each region to get more details on specific fires.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
 
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reddvltj said:
Alaska being off by itself makes it a little different than the lower 48, California has its own fire agency too, but the rest of us lower 47 have regions that aren't necessarily based off of state line boundaries. Inciweb is a good starting point and then you can brake down into each region to get more details on specific fires.

https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/
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It is interesting that this state is the example of how interagency cooperation should be done but not followed anywhere else.
 
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Blackjack said:
It is interesting that this state is the example of how interagency cooperation should be done but not followed anywhere else.
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No kidding. My dad has been up to AK a couple times on different fires over the years. He said if it wasn't so far away he'd have no issues just working fires there. Cal-fire is and always has been one of the hardest to work with. They absolutely don't like out of state contractors, and they think Forest Service teams are beneath them. I only go to CA is they are desperate and they agree to to pretty much anything I request... Like allowing me to bring my 28' camp trailer down to the August Complex Fire 2 years ago...
 
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RMETeeJay said:
Another helpful site is the U.S. Drought Monitor.
[URL]https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/[/URL]

Here in CO, we recently got some much needed moisture. NM can't get a break. 😢
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We had some heavy rains over the weekend and it's been considerably cooler, unfortunately I think it's going to end up feeding the potential mid to late summer fires. What's nice, green, and growing really well right now is bound to dry out and become even more dry fast burning fuel.

One of the contractors I work for called me up a week ago and asked if I was ready to go out on fires. When he said it was NM I took a pass. The last time I drove an empty water truck that far the roads beat the crap out of my spine! Something tells me I could potentially still end up down there at some point this year.
 
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