Alert archive / Fire Weather Watches

Fire Weather Watches in the United States, 2026

706 fire weather watches in 2026. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The last few weeks are still filling in as offices finish their follow-ups. The archive of fire weather watches reaches back to 2005.

Fire Weather Watches by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

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Fire Weather Watches
706
Busiest month
March166 fire weather watches
Busiest day
March 27, 202619 fire weather watches

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By month

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. March 27, 202619fire weather watches
  2. April 21, 202619fire weather watches
  3. March 26, 202615fire weather watches
  4. April 15, 202614fire weather watches
  5. March 19, 202613fire weather watches
  6. February 16, 202612fire weather watches
  7. February 17, 202612fire weather watches
  8. May 13, 202612fire weather watches
  9. June 5, 202612fire weather watches
  10. March 23, 202611fire weather watches
  11. April 19, 202610fire weather watches
  12. April 20, 202610fire weather watches
  13. June 18, 202610fire weather watches
  14. February 15, 20269fire weather watches
  15. February 26, 20269fire weather watches

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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. Rebuilt daily.