Fire Weather Watches in Minnesota
296 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
- 296
- Busiest year
- 201251 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 14over 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.
- Yellow Medicine County55
- Stevens County50
- Redwood County50
- Chippewa County49
- Lac qui Parle County49
- Swift County48
- Pope County45
- Brown County45
- Watonwan County43
- Marshall County42
- Douglas County41
- Polk County41
- Martin County41
- Renville County41
- Traverse County41
- Cass County40
- Big Stone County40
- Beltrami County39
- Clearwater County39
- Itasca County39
- Kandiyohi County39
- Red Lake County38
- Roseau County38
- Saint Louis County38
- Todd County38
- Wilkin County38
- Clay County37
- Grant County37
- Pennington County37
- Becker County36
- Lake of the Woods County36
- Otter Tail County36
- Aitkin County35
- Crow Wing County35
- Kittson County35
- Morrison County34
- Hubbard County34
- Koochiching County34
- Mahnomen County34
- Norman County34
47 more counties
- Stearns County34
- Benton County33
- Wadena County32
- Pine County31
- Nicollet County30
- Mille Lacs County29
- Blue Earth County29
- Kanabec County28
- Faribault County28
- Meeker County28
- Carlton County27
- Nobles County27
- Sherburne County26
- Cook County26
- Lake County26
- Wright County25
- Sibley County25
- Lincoln County25
- Lyon County25
- Jackson County25
- Murray County25
- Rock County25
- McLeod County24
- Cottonwood County24
- Pipestone County24
- Isanti County23
- Le Sueur County23
- Carver County22
- Freeborn County22
- Waseca County22
- Chisago County20
- Scott County20
- Steele County20
- Anoka County18
- Ramsey County18
- Rice County18
- Washington County17
- Hennepin County17
- Dakota County15
- Dodge County13
- Goodhue County13
- Mower County13
- Fillmore County12
- Olmsted County11
- Wabasha County8
- Houston County7
- Winona County7
The latest fire weather watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 3:21 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Cook, Lake, Saint Louis | 15 hr |
| Jul 12, 9:39 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Cook, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 16 hr |
| Jul 11, 3:33 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FGF | Beltrami, Clearwater, Hubbard, Lake of the Woods, Marshall, Roseau | 35 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:51 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Carlton, Cass, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and 1 more | 31 hr |
| Jul 11, 2:51 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake, Saint Louis | 9 hr |
| Jun 5, 11:37 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Itasca, Koochiching, Saint Louis | 38 hr |
| May 13, 1:54 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Pipestone | 24 hr |
| May 13, 9:51 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Carlton, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca, Koochiching and 2 more | 26 hr |
| May 13, 3:20 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | MPX | Benton, Chippewa, Chisago, Douglas, Isanti, Kanabec and 16 more | 32 hr |
| May 13, 3:14 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FGF | Becker, Beltrami, Clay, Clearwater, Grant, Hubbard and 12 more | 33 hr |
| May 13, 1:02 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | Big Stone, Traverse | 24 hr |
| Apr 21, 1:28 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | DLH | Aitkin, Cass, Crow Wing, Itasca | 14 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.