Alert archive / Red Flag Warnings

Red Flag Warnings in the United States, 2022

1,310 red flag warnings in 2022. Each alert counts once, however many counties it covered. The archive of red flag warnings reaches back to 2005.

Red Flag Warnings by state

Each state shaded by its count. Tap a state for its own archive.

AKMEVTNHWAIDMTNDMNILWIMINYRIMAORNVWYSDIAINOHPANJCTCAUTCONEMOKYWVVAMDDEAZNMKSARTNNCSCDCOKLAMSALGAHITXFLPR
Red Flag Warnings
1,310
Busiest month
April351 red flag warnings
Busiest day
April 8, 202230 red flag warnings

Over time

By month

By state

Every state and territory, with the alerts that covered any part of it. Each state’s page lists every one of them.

6 more states

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. April 8, 202230red flag warnings
  2. April 9, 202224red flag warnings
  3. October 13, 202223red flag warnings
  4. April 5, 202222red flag warnings
  5. April 11, 202222red flag warnings
  6. October 12, 202221red flag warnings
  7. March 19, 202220red flag warnings
  8. February 14, 202219red flag warnings
  9. March 28, 202219red flag warnings
  10. May 10, 202219red flag warnings
  11. April 6, 202218red flag warnings
  12. April 14, 202218red flag warnings
  13. October 22, 202216red flag warnings
  14. March 26, 202216red flag warnings
  15. May 6, 202216red flag warnings

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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. Rebuilt daily.