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Fire Weather Watches in Washington, 2023

18 fire weather watches in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Fire Weather Watches
18
Busiest month
July7 fire weather watches
Busiest day
July 13, 20233 fire weather watches

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Pacific Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 1:37 PM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan47 hr
Jun 28, 2:27 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima46 hr
Jul 2, 3:10 AM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXDouglas, Grant, Okanogan11 hr
Jul 2, 2:16 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEWGrays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skamania and 1 more23 hr
Jul 13, 1:06 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima49 hr
Jul 13, 1:45 PM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan49 hr
Jul 13, 1:45 PM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more61 hr
Jul 22, 6:04 AM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Columbia, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille and 3 more32 hr
Jul 22, 6:34 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima18 hr
Aug 10, 2:23 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPQR48 hr
Aug 12, 3:12 AM PDTFire Weather WatchSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more11 hr
Aug 15, 2:04 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima24 hr
Aug 15, 2:12 PM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more24 hr
Aug 17, 2:03 PM PDTFire Weather WatchSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more24 hr
Aug 23, 3:53 AM PDTFire Weather WatchSEWKing, Lewis, Pierce, Skamania10 hr
Aug 23, 4:38 AM PDTFire Weather WatchPQR10 hr
Sep 15, 1:40 PM PDTFire Weather WatchOTXAdams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more23 hr
Sep 15, 1:46 PM PDTFire Weather WatchPDTBenton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima23 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 13, 20233fire weather watches
  2. June 28, 20232fire weather watches
  3. July 2, 20232fire weather watches
  4. August 15, 20232fire weather watches
  5. August 23, 20232fire weather watches
  6. September 15, 20232fire weather watches
  7. July 22, 20231fire weather watches
  8. July 23, 20231fire weather watches
  9. August 10, 20231fire weather watches
  10. August 12, 20231fire weather watches
  11. August 17, 20231fire weather watches

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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.