IMET deployments - early to mid August 2017

It continues to be a busy wildfire season, The National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) issued a National Preparedness Level 5 (on a scale of 1 to 5) on August 10th for about four days. As I write this on August 16, the National Preparedness Level is at level 4, still high but not as high as it was. For those of you who are curious, and want to see the current National Preparedness Level, you will want to visit this NIFC page. Incident Meteorologists (IMETs) continue to work wildfires, monitoring weather conditions on their assigned wildfires and conducting briefs to name but a few things that they do. As you can see from the Facebook Post embedded below, IMETs issue lightning alerts.




Here are some recent IMET deployments. IMETS work onsite on their assigned wildfire for up to two weeks. As required a new IMET will be rotated in as an IMET finishes their deployment.

IMET Trainee
Deployed on August 8th


August 4th



August 6th

August 8th