Fire Weather Watches in Pennsylvania
89 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
- 89
- Busiest year
- 201217 fire weather watches
- Average year
- 6over 15 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.
- Philadelphia County34
- Berks County33
- Delaware County33
- Lehigh County33
- Northampton County32
- Carbon County30
- Monroe County30
- Lackawanna County25
- Luzerne County25
- Pike County25
- Wayne County25
- Wyoming County25
- Susquehanna County24
- Bradford County23
- Lebanon County22
- Dauphin County21
- Lancaster County21
- Columbia County20
- Montour County20
- Northumberland County20
- Schuylkill County20
- York County19
- Cumberland County18
- Perry County18
- Adams County17
- Snyder County17
- Union County17
- Franklin County16
- Juniata County15
- Lycoming County15
- Mifflin County15
- Bedford County15
- Bucks County15
- Montgomery County15
- Sullivan County14
- Tioga County14
- Fulton County14
- Huntingdon County14
- Centre County13
- Blair County13
26 more counties
- Chester County13
- Clinton County11
- Potter County10
- Cameron County8
- Cambria County7
- Clearfield County7
- Elk County7
- McKean County7
- Somerset County7
- Warren County7
- Allegheny County3
- Greene County3
- Washington County3
- Armstrong County2
- Beaver County2
- Butler County2
- Clarion County2
- Forest County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Mercer County2
- Venango County2
- Fayette County2
- Westmoreland County2
- Crawford County1
- Erie County1
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.