Thursday, July 15, 2021

2021 wildfire season: Preparedness Level 5

 As some of you know, here in the U.S. the National Interagency Fire Center has five national wildfire preparedness levels.

Obtained on July 15, 2021 from https://www.nifc.gov/fire-information#current-level 

According to the daily wildfire information from the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in their daily wildfire news (information on this page is updated daily so the figures you see may be different):
Seventy-one large fires and complexes have burned 993,678 acres across the United States. More than 17,000 wildland firefighters and support personnel are assigned to incidents. To date, 34,411 wildfires have burned 2,255,218 million acres. (obtained on July 15th from NIFC wildfire news

On July 14, 2021, NIFC raised the preparedness level to five, the highest level. This is the earliest the preparedness level has been at level 5 in ten years.


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