National Preparedness Level: 1 (On a scale from 1 to 5)
Northern California PL: 1
Southern California PL: 1
This report will be every Friday unless significant activity occurs.
Smaller, local incidents are listed in the Happening Now section.
Current National Situation:
May 10, 2024 – Initial attack was light with 442 new fires reported. 5 new large fires reported and 2 large fires contained.
| This week | Year to date | 10-yr average |
| Fires: 442 Acres: 4,460 | Fires: 13,422 Acres: 1,842,578 | Fires: 18,212 Acres: 858,122 (2014 – 2023 as of today) |
Regional fires
| Incident Name | State | Lead Agency | Size (acres) | Percent Contained | Estimate of Containment | Personnel | Structures Destroyed |
| Ridgewood | CA | NEU | 1.5 | May 3, 2024 | 60+ | 0 | |
| Pendola 2024 | CA | TNF | 18 | 100% | April 21, 2024 | 50+ | 0 |
California fires
| Incident Name | State | Lead Agency | Size (acres) | Percent Contained | Estimate of Containment | Personnel | Structures Destroyed |
| Smith River Complex | CA | SRF | 95,107 | 95% | Nov. 15, 2023 | 40 | 7 |
Out of state fires
Map information using data provided by the National Interagency Fire Center. The data is subject to change.
Weather Outlook
Dry conditions will continue into Saturday across the Southwest west of the Divide, with locally breezy conditions along the Mogollon Rim. Meanwhile, scattered to widespread showers, with high elevation snow, will develop near and east of the Divide in Colorado and New Mexico into the adjacent High Plains. Dry and breezy conditions will likely spread across much of New Mexico Sunday into Monday, but conditions will likely be mitigated by earlier precipitation. Above normal temperatures are forecast across the Northwest into California, the northern Great Basin, and northern Rockies into early next week. Temperatures will cool closer to normal mid-next week, with scattered showers for the northern Rockies into the northern Plains. Widespread showers and thunderstorms will develop from central Texas and Oklahoma through the Southeast this weekend through early next week, with heavy rain from central/east Texas into Georgia. Precipitation will fall across the Florida Panhandle but amounts for the central and southern Florida peninsula remain uncertain, with very dry and occasionally breezy conditions preceding the rain across the peninsula. Periods of light to moderate showers are also forecast across the Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley, and Northeast for the next week. Cool and showery conditions are forecast for much of Alaska into early next week. A wet pattern is forecast for Hawai’i through the weekend due to an upper level low, with gradual drying but still showery conditions for the islands early to mid-next week.