Fire Weather Watches in Alabama
502 fire weather watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.
Fire Weather Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 502
- Busiest year
- 201098 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 36over 14 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Coffee County196
- Dale County196
- Geneva County196
- Henry County196
- Houston County196
- Lee County118
- Elmore County116
- Macon County116
- Montgomery County116
- Russell County116
- Covington County115
- Pike County115
- Barbour County115
- Bullock County115
- Butler County115
- Crenshaw County115
- Conecuh County112
- Escambia County112
- Lowndes County111
- Autauga County110
- Chambers County110
- Tallapoosa County110
- Coosa County109
- Chilton County106
- Talladega County106
- Clay County105
- Cleburne County105
- Calhoun County104
- Dallas County104
- Randolph County103
- Perry County102
- St. Clair County101
- Bibb County101
- Shelby County101
- Monroe County99
- Wilcox County99
- Hale County98
- Jefferson County97
- Cherokee County96
- Etowah County96
27 more counties
- Marengo County96
- Blount County93
- Greene County91
- Sumter County91
- Tuscaloosa County91
- Clarke County90
- Pickens County84
- Walker County84
- Fayette County83
- Choctaw County82
- Lamar County80
- Washington County79
- Marion County79
- Winston County79
- Colbert County59
- Lauderdale County59
- Limestone County59
- Cullman County58
- Franklin County58
- Lawrence County58
- Madison County58
- Marshall County58
- Morgan County58
- DeKalb County57
- Jackson County57
- Baldwin County8
- Mobile County8
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 17, 1:19 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 59 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:57 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | Blount, Calhoun, Cherokee, Clay, Cleburne, Etowah and 11 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 11, 10:52 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Mar 27, 1:18 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MOB | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 10 hr |
| Mar 27, 12:57 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TAE | Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston | 12 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:47 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | HUN | Colbert, Cullman, DeKalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale and 6 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 26, 1:43 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | BMX | Autauga, Barbour, Bibb, Blount, Bullock, Calhoun and 32 more | 21 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.