Alert archive / Illinois / Fire Weather Watches
Fire Weather Watches in Illinois, 2025
5 fire weather watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 5
- Busiest month
- March3 fire weather watches
- Busiest day
- March 13, 20253 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 27, 3:26 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Grundy, Kane and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 13, 10:36 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:35 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ILX | Cass, Champaign, DeWitt, Fulton, Knox, Logan and 15 more | 15 hr |
| Mar 13, 11:54 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DVN | Bureau, Carroll, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess and 7 more | 15 hr |
| May 15, 10:12 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | LOT | Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy and 12 more | 23 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Boone County3
- Cook County3
- DeKalb County3
- DuPage County3
- Grundy County3
- Kane County3
- Kendall County3
- Lake County3
- LaSalle County3
- Lee County3
- McHenry County3
- Ogle County3
- Will County3
- Winnebago County3
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Livingston County2
- Cass County1
- Champaign County1
- DeWitt County1
- Fulton County1
- Knox County1
- Logan County1
- McLean County1
- Macon County1
- Marshall County1
- Mason County1
- Menard County1
- Morgan County1
- Peoria County1
- Piatt County1
- Sangamon County1
- Schuyler County1
- Scott County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Vermilion County1
- Woodford County1
- Bureau County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.