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Fire Weather Watches in Illinois, 2024
6 fire weather watches in 2024. 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 in 2024. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 6
- Busiest month
- February4 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- February 25, 20244 fire weather watches
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 25, 1:13 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | DeKalb, LaSalle, Lee, Livingston, Ogle, Winnebago | 14 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:25 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Cass, Fulton, Knox, Marshall, Mason, Morgan and 6 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:27 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Henry, Jo Daviess, Putnam, Stephenson and 1 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 25, 1:35 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | LSX | Brown, Pike | 14 hr |
| Oct 28, 1:59 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kankakee, Kendall, LaSalle and 2 more | 13 hr |
| Oct 28, 2:41 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Champaign, Christian, Coles, DeWitt, Douglas, Edgar and 12 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- LaSalle County2
- Livingston County2
- Mason County2
- Tazewell County2
- Woodford County2
- DeKalb County1
- Lee County1
- Ogle County1
- Winnebago County1
- Cass County1
- Fulton County1
- Knox County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Bureau County1
- Carroll County1
- Henry County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Putnam County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Brown County1
- Pike County1
- Ford County1
- Grundy County1
- Iroquois County1
- Kankakee County1
- Kendall County1
- Will County1
- Champaign County1
- Christian County1
- Coles County1
- DeWitt County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Logan County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.