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Fire Weather Watches in Washington, 2025
25 fire weather watches in 2025. 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.
- Fire Weather Watches
- 25
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- July11 fire weather watches
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- September 2, 20253 fire weather watches
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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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 1:59 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 1 more | 22 hr |
| Jun 30, 1:00 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 25 hr |
| Jun 30, 2:17 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan | 24 hr |
| Jul 6, 5:56 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 5 more | 19 hr |
| Jul 7, 1:27 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 23 hr |
| Jul 11, 8:24 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan | 18 hr |
| Jul 12, 2:41 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:11 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Benton, Franklin, Kittitas, Klickitat, Walla Walla, Yakima | 4 hr |
| Jul 14, 3:10 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:01 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 22 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:04 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 4 more | 23 hr |
| Jul 28, 12:33 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Chelan | 26 hr |
| Jul 28, 9:46 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 16 hr |
| Jul 30, 4:07 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Chelan, Douglas, Ferry, Okanogan, Stevens | 10 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:11 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Asotin, Benton, Columbia, Franklin, Garfield, Kittitas and 3 more | 26 hr |
| Aug 11, 1:53 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry and 8 more | 25 hr |
| Aug 21, 2:15 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson, King, Lewis, Mason and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Aug 22, 1:37 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 47 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:08 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Chelan, Okanogan | 48 hr |
| Sep 2, 2:20 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Chelan | 12 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:13 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | King, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Skamania, Snohomish and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Sep 2, 3:55 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PQR | Cowlitz, Klickitat, Skamania, Yakima | 10 hr |
| Sep 14, 12:51 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | SEW | Grays Harbor, King, Lewis, Mason, Pierce, Skagit and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Sep 23, 1:18 PM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | OTX | Adams, Asotin, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Garfield and 5 more | 23 hr |
| Sep 24, 1:58 AM PDT | Fire Weather Watch | PDT | Kittitas, Yakima | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Chelan County12
- Douglas County9
- Grant County8
- Yakima County8
- Okanogan County8
- Adams County7
- Asotin County7
- Columbia County7
- Garfield County7
- Kittitas County6
- Skamania County6
- Klickitat County5
- Lincoln County5
- Spokane County5
- Whitman County5
- King County5
- Lewis County5
- Pierce County5
- Skagit County5
- Snohomish County5
- Whatcom County5
- Benton County4
- Franklin County4
- Walla Walla County4
- Ferry County3
- Stevens County3
- Grays Harbor County3
- Mason County3
- Thurston County2
- Pend Oreille County1
- Clallam County1
- Jefferson County1
- Cowlitz County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.