Summary of 2024 New Jersey Fall Wildfire Season

As many of you know the fall of 2024 has been the worst wildfire season New Jersey has seen in over one hundred years. According to a November 10th press conference by the New Jersey Forest Fire Service that I watched on the evening of November 10th, there were 537 wildfires in New Jersey in October burning 4,500 acres. This video is an update on the Jennings Creek Wildfire but part way through the video they mention the October numbers. 

The idea behind this blog entry is to have a summary of the 2024 NJ Fall Wildfire Season that is more permanent that I can highlight on the right side of the main page of my blog and update as appropriate. I am going to list the wildfires that I know about from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service's Facebook page. Unless otherwise noted, the NJ Forest Fire issued a final incident report on the wildfire and will continue to monitor each wildfire. There are a lot of smaller wildfires that burned in New Jersey that I do not know about. The links for each fire, should lead to the last post I made on this fire which refers to the NJFFS final incident report for that wildfire.

I only recently learned that the embed code provided by Facebook that I use to share updates from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service's Facebook page do not work on cell phones. I have edited the posts that I link to below to include a direct link to the appropriate update from the New Jersey Forest Fire Service on Facebook. 

• Tamarac Wildfire, Medford Township, Burlington County, 30 acres
• Brendon T. Byrne State Forest, Pemberton Township, Burlington County, 35 acres
• Microwave Wildfire, Rockaway Township, Morris County, 77 acres
• Industrial Parkway Wildfire, Livingston, Essex County, 192 acres
• Evesham Township, Burlington County, 40 acres
• Halloween Wildfire, Evesham Township, Burlington County, 137 acres
• Craigmeur Lookout Wildfire, Morris County, 202 acres
• Wharton State Forest, Waterford Township, Camden County, 45 acres
• Bethany Run Wildfire, Burlington and Camden Counties,  360 acres
• Shotgun Wildfire, Jackson Township, Ocean County, 350 acres
• Pheasant Run Wildfire, Glassboro Wildlife Management Area, 133 acres. Smoke from the Pheasant Run Wildfire set off smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in Glassboro, NJ the weekend of Nov 9th and 10th see this NJ Advance Media article.
• Englewood Cliffs, Bergen County, 39 acres
• Cannonball 3 Wildfire, Pompton Lakes, Passaic County, 181 acres
• Jennings Creek Wildfire, Passaic County NJ and Orange County NY, as of 11/14 at 6:45 PM  2,283 acres have burned in New Jersey, acreage burned in New York is 2,100, there is 50 percent containment fire-wide. There was one line of duty death and two firefighters had minor injuries.