National Preparedness Level 2

as of November 9 at 6 p.m. MST (on a scale from 1 to 5)

Current hours for the National Fire Information Center are
(MST) 8:00 am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday
208-387-5050

This report will be updated on Fridays.
Please check the IMSR for more information.

November 13, 2020

Four new large fires were reported this week, two in Oklahoma and one in Kentucky and Utah. Currently, 29 uncontained large fires have burned 1.9 million acres in seven states. Wildland firefighters contained 10 large fires, including the August Complex on the Mendocino National Forest in California.

NIMO (Reinarz) has been assigned to provide wildland fire support to California.

During this unprecedented time, the safety of the public and all wildland fire responders is always the number one priority for all wildland fire agencies. For more information and links to the Geographic Area Plans, visit the NIFC COVID-19 page.

Weather

An upper-level trough will move over the West today and tomorrow before traversing across the CONUS Sunday into Tuesday. Widespread precipitation falling mostly as snow, including heavy snow in the mountains, is expected across the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies and into much of northern California, the northern Great Basin, and central Rockies today into Sunday. Dry and windy conditions are likely tomorrow in portions of the central and southern High Plains with rain and thunderstorms, including potentially severe storms, likely from the southern Plains into the Great Lakes. A cold front will likely sweep through the central and eastern US on Sunday and Monday.

• California (11)
• Colorado (4)
• Wyoming (3)
• Oregon (2)
• Utah (2)
• Oklahoma (2)
• Washington (1)