Fire Weather Watches in Kansas
1,070 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
- 1,070
- Busiest year
- 2022115 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 51over 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.
- Morton County269
- Stevens County265
- Grant County258
- Stanton County256
- Wallace County247
- Greeley County240
- Hamilton County236
- Kearny County230
- Seward County230
- Sherman County223
- Wichita County218
- Haskell County217
- Logan County209
- Finney County193
- Meade County189
- Cheyenne County186
- Gray County176
- Thomas County166
- Clark County158
- Scott County155
- Ford County153
- Gove County150
- Rawlins County145
- Hodgeman County137
- Sheridan County137
- Lane County131
- Graham County121
- Barton County120
- Comanche County119
- Phillips County117
- Rooks County116
- Kiowa County114
- Russell County114
- Ness County112
- Norton County112
- Rice County111
- Decatur County110
- Ellsworth County109
- Reno County109
- Osborne County109
65 more counties
- Smith County106
- Edwards County104
- Lincoln County104
- Kingman County102
- Pawnee County97
- McPherson County95
- Barber County95
- Rush County93
- Trego County92
- Harper County92
- Harvey County91
- Stafford County90
- Pratt County89
- Jewell County89
- Mitchell County89
- Sedgwick County87
- Saline County86
- Ellis County83
- Sumner County83
- Marion County80
- Butler County78
- Ottawa County77
- Chase County75
- Cloud County74
- Cowley County73
- Clay County70
- Dickinson County70
- Republic County69
- Riley County66
- Geary County65
- Greenwood County63
- Morris County62
- Elk County61
- Washington County60
- Chautauqua County58
- Pottawatomie County56
- Lyon County54
- Wabaunsee County54
- Marshall County53
- Woodson County50
- Shawnee County48
- Jackson County47
- Nemaha County46
- Wilson County45
- Osage County45
- Douglas County43
- Brown County42
- Coffey County42
- Jefferson County42
- Montgomery County41
- Anderson County40
- Franklin County40
- Cherokee County39
- Crawford County39
- Allen County38
- Bourbon County36
- Neosho County33
- Labette County31
- Linn County29
- Atchison County28
- Johnson County27
- Leavenworth County27
- Miami County27
- Wyandotte County27
- Doniphan County25
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 7, 1:45 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Sherman, Wallace | 37 hr |
| May 17, 8:34 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Grant, Gray, Haskell, Meade, Morton, Seward and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 2:55 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 11 hr |
| May 15, 10:25 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Clark, Finney, Ford, Grant, Gray, Hamilton and 8 more | 14 hr |
| May 12, 1:14 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GID | Phillips, Rooks | 8 hr |
| Apr 20, 2:25 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Cheyenne, Greeley, Logan, Rawlins, Sherman, Thomas and 2 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 20, 12:23 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Grant, Hamilton, Kearny, Morton, Stanton, Stevens | 24 hr |
| Apr 15, 12:24 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Graham, Norton | 12 hr |
| Apr 15, 1:39 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 14 hr |
| Apr 14, 1:09 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DDC | Finney, Grant, Gray, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny and 5 more | 35 hr |
| Apr 13, 12:48 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GLD | Gove, Greeley, Logan, Wallace, Wichita | 9 hr |
| Apr 13, 1:53 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | GID | Jewell, Mitchell, Osborne, Phillips, Rooks, Smith | 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.