Arizona, 2024

Wildfire in Arizona, June 22, 2024

June 22, 2024 · NWS VEF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The Needles Fire started in the 900 block of Bush Street and moved north, jumping the Colorado River into Mohave Valley. The fire eventually burned 203 acres - 60 in CA and 143 in AZ - and destroyed one structure in CA.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.

The Needles Fire started in the 900 block of Bush Street and moved north, jumping the Colorado River into Mohave Valley. The fire eventually burned 203 acres - 60 in CA and 143 in AZ - and destroyed one structure in CA.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 22, 2:14 PM MST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 2:14 PM MST, 26 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Lake Havasu and Fort Mohave

When
June 22, 2:40 PM MST to 4:30 PM MST
Where
Lake Havasu and Fort Mohave forecast zone
Reported by
Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates
35.704, -113.758 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

The fire began in Needles, CA at 1215 PST/1315 MST, burning one structure, and jumped the Colorado River into Mohave Valley at 1340 PST/1440 MST. The fire was stopped at a total of 203 acres (60 acres in CA and 143 in AZ) at 1530 PST/1630 MST. There was no structural damage reported on the AZ side.

What these are

Wildfire
A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1177112.