Fire Weather Watches in California
1,318 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
- 1,318
- Busiest year
- 2020114 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 63over 21 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.
- Modoc County357
- San Bernardino County227
- Siskiyou County188
- Riverside County179
- Lassen County151
- Los Angeles County119
- Sierra County109
- San Diego County94
- Nevada County86
- Placer County86
- El Dorado County85
- Orange County84
- Plumas County82
- Imperial County72
- Tulare County50
- Madera County41
- Inyo County40
- Mono County33
- Ventura County26
- Santa Barbara County25
- San Mateo County21
- Santa Clara County21
- Santa Cruz County21
- Kern County21
- Monterey County18
- Alameda County15
- Contra Costa County15
- San Benito County14
- Napa County13
- Sonoma County13
- Marin County12
- Fresno County11
- Mariposa County8
- Tuolumne County7
- San Luis Obispo County7
- City and County of San Francisco4
- Kings County4
- Merced County4
- Tehama County4
- Butte County4
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 9:18 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | EKA | Lake | 13 hr |
| Sep 10, 11:42 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | REV | Lassen, Madera, Modoc, Mono | 23 hr |
| Sep 10, 10:41 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | STO | Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 30, 9:19 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | REV | Lassen, Modoc | 26 hr |
| Aug 29, 1:33 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc, Siskiyou | 23 hr |
| Aug 25, 12:48 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc | 21 hr |
| Aug 20, 10:52 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | REV | Lassen, Modoc | 21 hr |
| Aug 20, 9:28 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc, Siskiyou | 24 hr |
| Aug 19, 11:53 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc, Siskiyou | 22 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:19 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | REV | El Dorado, Lassen, Modoc, Nevada, Placer, Plumas and 1 more | 41 hr |
| Aug 11, 9:57 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | STO | Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Nevada and 6 more | 25 hr |
| Jul 24, 1:10 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | MFR | Modoc | 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.