Fire Weather Watches in Arkansas
73 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
- 73
- Busiest year
- 201016 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 5over 15 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.
- Benton County20
- Marion County20
- Baxter County19
- Washington County18
- Garland County18
- Pike County18
- Carroll County17
- Conway County17
- Perry County17
- Pulaski County16
- Clark County16
- Grant County16
- Hot Spring County16
- Saline County16
- Madison County15
- Faulkner County15
- Dallas County15
- Ouachita County15
- Calhoun County14
- Cleburne County13
- Izard County13
- Jackson County13
- Stone County13
- Ashley County13
- Chicot County13
- Fulton County12
- Independence County12
- Sharp County12
- Arkansas County11
- Jefferson County11
- Lonoke County11
- Monroe County11
- Prairie County11
- White County11
- Woodruff County11
- Bradley County11
- Cleveland County11
- Desha County10
- Drew County10
- Lincoln County10
27 more counties
- Clay County10
- Craighead County10
- Crittenden County10
- Greene County10
- Lawrence County10
- Lee County10
- Mississippi County10
- Phillips County10
- Poinsett County10
- Randolph County10
- St. Francis County10
- Cross County9
- Little River County3
- Howard County2
- Sevier County2
- Lafayette County2
- Miller County2
- Columbia County1
- Union County1
- Hempstead County1
- Nevada County1
- Johnson County1
- Pope County1
- Searcy County1
- Van Buren County1
- Boone County1
- Newton County1
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2:10 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | JAN | Ashley, Chicot | 21 hr |
| Mar 20, 11:41 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | TSA | Benton, Washington | 25 hr |
| Feb 17, 11:15 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | TSA | Benton, Carroll, Madison, Washington | 24 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.